Working with Guest Faculty
This section explains how to add and remove guest faculty members within a course.
About Guest Faculty
The guest faculty feature allows you to let faculty who are not on the official course roster participate in all of the online aspects of the course. This is helpful if you have guest lecturers, department heads auditing the course or educational technologists copying courses on behalf of faculty.
By default, guest faculty can create and grade coursework, administer the gradebook and take advantage of all other faculty permissions. If necessary, you can remove certain permissions for guest faculty by editing the Guest Faculty role (which controls all guest faculty permissions) from the Access screen.
All guest faculty will have the course listed in their My Courses quick links section in the sidebar.
How To
To add guest faculty, use the Add a guest faculty member link on the Context Manager > Permissions screen. The system will display a popup that gives you two options for adding guest faculty to the course:
Navigate to the Permissions screen that shows all students in the course, as described in View a List of All Students and Faculty.
Click Add a guest faculty member.
The system displays a pop-up labeled Add a guest faculty member. This pop-up that lets you do either of the following:
Click Add Individual Users to display a second pop-up that lets you select specific people.
Click Choose from roles in all my courses to display all your current courses and add all the faculty from one of those courses all at once. This option is especially useful if you are combining different sections of a course into a single online course area.
Use the pop-up(s) to select either a role from a current course or an individual user (or users). If you need help with this, see Select Users with the People Chooser.
In the Add a guest faculty member pop-up, click Save.
The system adds the guest faculty member to the course. The faculty member’s name is now displayed on the Context Manager > Permissions screen, with the status Guest faculty, and the user should now be able to access the course context.
If you need to remove a guest faculty, you can do so using the Remove link by their name on the full student and faculty list.
Navigate to the Permissions screen that shows all students and faculty in the course, as described in View a List of All Students and Faculty.
In the list of faculty, locate the guest faculty member you want to remove from the course.
Click the corresponding Remove link.
The system removes the guest faculty from the course. The faculty member will no longer see the link to this course under My Courses and will not be able to display the course’s content.