Assign an oversight role

Say the manager of a nursery school buys training courses for all the staff.  We issue enrolment keys, the manager distributes them and sits back happy to let the staff get on with it.  Three weeks later the manager wants to see how far the staff have got.

As an Admin create a new role.  Go to Settings > Site Admin > Users > Permissions > Define roles.  Click Add a new role.  Give the role a name (e.g. Monitor), short name and a description if you want.  In Role Archetype choose what role you want the new role to be based on.  I went with none-editing teacher.  In Context I chose Course, this means the role can be assigned at the course level.

Now go through the permissions and allow any that you want this new role to have.  This took a bit of trial and error for me but I pretty much allowed all reports and logs to be run and allowed them to see participants.

With the new role created you need the person to have an account.  You can do this for them or make them do it themselves.

Go to the course you want the person to be able to monitor.  This is the course they have bought for their staff, if they bought more than one you'll have to do this for each course they have staff enrolled on.  Go to Settings  Course Administration > Users > Enrolled Users.  At the top click Enrol Users.  In the Assign roles drop down choose the new role you created, find the person you want to give monitor rights to on the list and click enrol.  This will allow then to run the reports and see the participants of this course.

I've used separate groups so I can issue individual enrolment keys, these groups are all separate so users can't see each other.  This means that the new monitor won't see them either so we have to ass the monitor to all the groups their staff are in.  Refresh the Enrolled Users page of the course you're in and find the new monitor user.  Click the little plus sign in the groups column and add them to all the same groups as their staff, (bare in mind some of the enrolment keys they bought may not have been activated yet so add them to every group that corresponds with an enrolment key they purchased).  They will now be able to see everyone in the same groups that they are in.

Create new Local Authority role
Have the LA sign up like normal.in the course
In the course go enrolled users
Click Enrol users at the top.
Enrol the LA as the new Local Authority role.
Go to enrolled users
Click the plus sign Enrol that LA in all the relevant groups.
They will now be able to see everyone in those groups and when they last logged in.

How to make a check mark/tick in InDesign

I'll start by saying this has nothing to do with Moodle.

I have been designing book covers and one of them needed a tick mark.  So of course I did some Googling to try and find out how to do it.  I came across numerous posts from people trying to do the same thing and the answers they received varied from "It can't be done" to "It can be done but it's a massive hassle."

I eventually found the answer in the most unlikely of places, a Microsoft Excel help document.  This pointed out that Wingdings has a tick mark as one of its characters.

This is only for Windows by the way, I have no idea what to do on a Mac.

Got to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools and choose Character Map.  In the font drop down choose Wingdings.  Now you can see all the handy little icons that make up Wingdings.  Click the one you want to use (the ticks are at the end) and press Select then Copy.  This will put the character on your clipboard.  Return to InDesign (or whatever program you're using) and paste the character in place.  The character will probably appear as a box because the font you're using doesn't recognise it.  Highlight the character and change its font to Wingdings and there you go.

I went one step further and made the tick mark into a bullet point. Create a new paragraph style for the list you want ticks next to.  In the Bullets and Numbering tab and click Add in the Bullet Character box.  Choose Wingdings from the Font Family drop down, click the tick mark you want.  This mark will now act as a bullet point for this list.

I'm not gonna lie, it was an utter revelation when I realised Wingdings actually had a use.