Reinstate 'advisor' role for new Moodle based Courses
Historically, the advisor role (and main contact) were able to see inside classes and offer support, admin and adjunct teaching - enabling busy Cisco Academies to delegate admin, have teacher support and scale delivery ... sadly, this role no longer works on the new Moodle experience - as far as we can ascertain, this can be reapplied, however our friends at Cisco need to understand if there is actual community interest/desire for this.
What this will do is potentially lock out courses and student admin when instructors leave, are ill or require support - which is an administrative concern.
Andrew Smith
shared this idea
AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
responded
Thank you for the feedback. We have added a Course Facilitator role. This will allow the instructor to add a Contact, Staff, or Advisor to their course through the Edit Course page. The Course Facilitator will have the same functionality as an instructor.
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Jose Manuel Izquierdo Hernandez
commented
Done!!
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Julio Martus
commented
It is a function that must be maintained
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Anonymous
commented
This will affect us under the fluid situation we all face. Wonder what’s the reason behind removing the role?
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Stephen Duncan
commented
An essential requirement for us should 2 of our main Cisco instructors require to take long term absence, which is increasing in the current climate due to COVID, job fatigue, stress...
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Fred!
commented
ok - this is worrying, will check with my colleagues tomorrow ... now wondering how we are going to manage during our extended lockdown over the winter and beyond - this does not look good at all
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Do not wish to share
commented
this is essential, I have just checked on a colleagues course, this MEANS that we CANNOT administer the courses of others, which is REQUIRED in our institution