6.2.1. Course Staffing

You can designate a team of people to help you run your course.

You add staff members in Studio. For more information, see Add Course Team Members in Studio.

6.2.1.1. About Page Biography Guidelines

Staff biographies for the course About page must include the following information.

  • Name
  • Title
  • Email address
  • Biography (1-2 paragraphs)
  • Image

Note

The instructor’s image must meet the following requirements.
  • Resolution of 110 x 110 pixels
  • Under 256 KB in size
  • .gif, .jpg, or .png file type

Additionally, biographies can optionally include the following information.

  • Facebook, Twitter, and blog URLs
  • List of major works

For information about how to enter this information in your course About page, see Creating a Course About Page.

6.2.1.2. Course Team Roles

To give team members access to Studio, the instructor dashboard in the LMS, and Insights, you assign one of these course team roles to them.

  • Staff
  • Admin

You can assign these privileged roles when you work in either the LMS or Studio. The people who have these roles can work on your course in Studio, the LMS, and Insights. For more information about assigning roles to team members in Studio, see Add Course Team Members.

You can also designate teams of people to beta test your course or to moderate and manage its discussions by assigning other roles in the LMS. Beta testers and discussion team members must be enrolled in your course, but they do not need to have the Staff or Admin role. For more information, see Beta Testing a Course and Assign Discussion Administration Roles.

For more information about how to add course team members, see Add Course Team Members in Studio.

6.2.1.3. Administrative Team Roles

To provide access to features on the instructor dashboard in the LMS, you assign the Staff role or the Admin role.

Team members with the Staff role can complete the following tasks.

  • View the course before the course start date.
  • Enroll and unenroll learners.
  • Access and modify grades for individual learners. For example, users with the Staff role can reset an individual learner’s attempt to answer a question.
  • See course HTML errors.
  • Send email messages to course participants.
  • Activate course certificates.

Course team members who have the Admin role can complete all the tasks that course team members who have the Staff role can complete. They can also complete the following tasks.

  • Access and modify grades for all learners in a course. For example, users with the Admin role can reset all learners’ attempts to answer a question.

  • Add and remove staff.

  • Add and remove other admins.

  • Add and remove beta testers.

  • Add and remove discussion admins, discussion moderators, and discussion community TAs.

    Note

    To moderate course discussions, team members must have one of these discussion roles assigned to them in addition to the Staff or Admin role. For more information, see Assign Discussion Administration Roles.

Regardless of where the role is assigned, these administrative team members can work on your course in Studio immediately, and use the LMS and Insights after enrollment. For more information about assigning roles while you run your course, see Course Staffing.

You can also designate teams of people to beta test your course and to moderate and manage its discussions by assigning other LMS roles. The beta testers and discussion administrators must be enrolled in your course, but they do not need to have Staff or Admin access. For more information, see Beta Testing a Course and Assign Discussion Administration Roles.

For more information about how to add course team members, see Add Course Team Members in Studio.