Mary Cooch

Hi David. If you are a course creator within a category (maybe your categories are faculties/departments like ours -French for example) then you should only be able to create courses in that category. If you have course creator role assigned system wide (via the front page site admin>users>permissions>assign system roles)then I believe this makes you able to create courses in any category throughout the Moodle. It is always better to restrict roles to one department/category/course rather than have them system wide - just as in a school you wouldn't have a maths teacher ordinarily able to set up classes in geography/history whatever, so you shouldn't really on Moodle. As for teachers then - assigning them the role of teacher system wide (via assign system roles) makes them able to teach - edit -and get the grades of students in all courses all over the Moodle. They should only be given teacher role in the courses in which they teach. Or - in the category they teach in , like say, English . It's the same with students and is a common errror made when setting up Moodle. Students should be put into the courses they study and not assigned system wide or every course will have every student and cause mayhem -as it would if they all turned up to one class in the real world! I think what confuses people is that in real life we are teachers or students - but in Moodle, when we log in, we are just "users" who could be made teachers in one course and students in another. If you as a teacher wish to have a look around a course of someone in another faculty you would be a student in there. Likewise if you wanted to give your class editing rights on a Moodle page to run a school club for example, they would be given the teacher role in Moodle even though they are "students" in the real world.

Hmm well that is odd
First question: you are using Moodle 1.9 aren't you? Not Moodle 2? Because in Moodle 2 everything's different (and it's only for testing purposes)

When you go into your course what is the number of the course? Is it possible you have a second moodledata folder (or even one with a different name) elsewhere on the server that is housing the files? If you have successfully uploaded a file into a course it should have created a numbered folder with the number of that course . If your Moodle is externally hosted and you want to DM me ftp access I will take a look.

Also take a look at the journal module -we use that for one to one discussions on a pastoral level where students have problems and want to discuss privately with their teacher/mentor.

Hi Glenn - man after my own heart: I like making explanatory videos too The Parent role as you show it in your video does everything a parent should need to access - you can get the grades from each course ( and presumably feedback;can't remember but you cannot actually access the course itself because -as Ben pointed out, there are various privacy concerns according to what country you are in. So are you saying that when you make a parent role (and presumably you have made a brand new role? ) then it does not do this, ie, not show the courses? You must be missing something out - I have a video I can send you if you DM me an email of how I did a parent role for our school. I can't show it as it uses real people but if it is any help, it might be worth it.

I think students are not able to insert images because they do not have access to the course files area in the same way teachers do to add images. The only thing I can suggest if it is that important is that they upload to a photosharing site such as Flickr and then link the url/copy/paste the image. Or use a forum (which you can grade) where they can upload a photo as an attachment and it will display.