{"id":5505,"date":"2017-08-17T14:35:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/asti\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2017-08-17T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T14:35:30","slug":"switch-role-to-feature-in-moodle-has-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/switch-role-to-feature-in-moodle-has-moved\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Switch role to&#8230;&#8217; feature in Moodle has moved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Switch role to..\u2019 feature allows you to simulate different views of your Moodle courses. The feature is particularly useful if you want to check how your students will see your module(s) or programme(s). For example you can check that hidden files, activities and\/or sections aren\u2019t visible to your students until the desired time.<\/p>\n<p>With the upgrade to Moodle at the start of July, the \u2018Switch role to\u2019 feature has moved from the \u2018Administration\u2019 block on courses, to the very top of the page by your name and the logout button (see image below<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/asti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2017\/08\/Switch-role-to2-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5506\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/asti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2017\/08\/Switch-role-to2-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Simply click on the link, choose the role you wish to simulate, and Moodle will display the course in your chosen view.<\/p>\n<p>To return to your normal role, click \u2018Return to my normal role\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/asti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2017\/08\/return-to-my-normal-role1-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5507\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/asti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2017\/08\/return-to-my-normal-role1-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Switch role to..\u2019 feature allows you to simulate different views of your Moodle courses. The feature is particularly useful if you want to check how your students will see your module(s) or programme(s). For example you can check that hidden files, activities and\/or sections aren\u2019t visible to your students until the desired time. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moodle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdVSkC-1qN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}