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The register

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The register is the list of everybody on a course and the role each of them holds. It is the screen to open when the question is “is this person actually enrolled?”.

Opening it

On the course page, find Manage in the side column and choose Enrollment. It opens over the course page rather than taking you somewhere else, so closing it puts you back where you were.

It loads when you open it rather than with the page. A course with four hundred people on it should not put four hundred rows into everybody’s browser.

Finding one person

Type into the search box. It looks at more than the displayed name, which matters more than it sounds:

  • First and last name separately, so somebody shown as “Bob” is findable by their surname.
  • Email address, which is often the only thing you have been given.
  • Username, because support requests tend to quote it.

You can also sort by surname rather than by display name. A list of three hundred ordered on “First Last” is ordered by first name, which is rarely how you are looking for somebody. Surname sorting uses the stored last name — so “de Vries” and “Van der Berg” stay in one piece.

What the roles mean

Each row shows the person’s role on this course: Student, Assistant, Contributor or Instructor. Somebody can hold a different role on a different course, and the register only ever tells you about this one.

Site administrators do not appear here even though they can do everything on the course. They look after the site rather than being staff on this course’s rota, and listing them would make every course look as though it had three extra instructors.

Withdrawing somebody

Each row has Withdraw. It takes them off the course and keeps their work — their answers and marks are not deleted, so a withdrawal that turns out to be a mistake is recoverable by enrolling them again.

You cannot withdraw yourself, which is deliberate: it is the one action on this screen nobody can undo for you.

Assistants can read the register but not change it. Adding and withdrawing people is administration rather than marking — see Who can do what on a course.