LON-CAPA Help

A course coordinator can add TAs, instructors, guests, etc., to the course. There is also the option to create a new role with customized privileges; see how to create a custom role in .

To add a user to your course:

1. Select Manage course users on the Main Menu.

2. On the User Management screen, select Add/Modify a Course User.

3. You can use the Search for a user and modify/add user information or roles section to search for a user by username, or last name, in a specific LON-CAPA domain, or in an institutional directory, if the domain has access to an institutional directory search service. You can also click the Select User link and a window will open with a list of all the users in the course.

   Note: If you know the exact username, you can either use a "username is ..." search in the search section, or type the username in the textbox in the Enroll one student section.

4. Click the
   

   Search

   or
   

   Enroll/Modify user

   button, as appropriate.

5. Scroll down to Add Roles.

6. Click the box next to the roles you wish to activate for the selected user.

7. Set the starting dates and ending dates for each role you selected, and optional section affiliation for instructors.

8. Click the
   

   Save

   button to complete the process.