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Simple solution: whoever needs this kind of access has their own normal account in addition to their sysadmin account - enrol that account on the module. Works for me. Also useful for delivering training - you can be a student or an instructor. -- Regards Mark Mark Gamble - Head, AV-Media Services, Learning Resources Tel ext 2260 Fax 2259 Mobile 077 200 686 05 http://lrweb.luton.ac.uk/av-media/ > From: Andy Dorman <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Andy Dorman <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:26:59 +0000 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Can system administrators teach courses? > > Hi folks, > > We're having a few problems organising a new course that we are running. > The situation is this - we have a course which has four groups of > students. We have assigned each group a mentor (some of which have > system administrator privelges on our system). The problem is that we > want students to be able to email their mentors from within their group > - so we decided to make the mentors members of the relevant group. > > The difficulty that we are having is that system administrators do not > appear when you list the users for the course - meaning we can't add > them to groups within the course. We tried making them teaching > assistants for the course but this made no difference. Should system > administrators have seperate log ons for the purpose of participating in > courses? > > I can understand the sense of this as it would mean that you have to use > a specific log on to make system wide changes, a bit like logging on as > the root user or as Administrator to your machine (you shouldn't > *really* do it more than you have to!) > > If anyone has any experience or advice in this area it would be greatly > appreciated. > > Another thing that has come from this is that it seems a shame that you > can't give particular users special roles within groups like group > leader or mentor. > > Andy. > > -- > Andy Dorman TITLE Unit, Computing Services > Web Developer +44 (0)1227 767700 ext 2016 > Canterbury Christ Church University College [log in to unmask] > > > > > > -- > Andy Dorman TITLE Unit, Computing Services > Web Developer +44 (0)1227 767700 ext 2016 > Canterbury Christ Church University College [log in to unmask]