Moodle FAQs

The lack of access is often due to the details in the Module Tutor field in SAMIS being incorrect or incomplete. For example, the unit convenor for the last academic year may be listed in the Module Tutor field. As such, you will not have been granted access as a Teacher to the Moodle course. If the Module Tutor field is currently blank, no corresponding Moodle course will have been created.

If Moodle courses do not appear as expected, please check with your Faculty Undergraduate/Postgraduate Office Team that the Module Tutor field in SAMIS for the relevant unit(s) is correct. Contact details for your Faculty team can be found at: http://drgn.in/9ZzjYy

Once the relevant field has been updated, you will be granted access to the Moodle course for the unit within 24 hours, usually overnight, following the Moodle-SAMIS synchronisation process. If this does not happen, please contact the e-Learning team at: e-learning@bath.ac.uk.

Scenario 2: I am not the unit convenor, but am teaching on the unit

If someone else is coordinating the unit, you should get in touch with them in the first instance and asked to be enrolled as a Teacher on the Moodle course. Details (for them) on how to do this, can be found at: http://drgn.in/yirhR

Information on why you must ask the unit convenor, rather than the e-Learning team, for access to such Moodle courses can be found in the Policies & Planning section of the Moodle Service blog.

Should you do not know who the unit convenor for the unit is, please contact your Faculty Undergraduate/Postgraduate Office Team. Contact details for your Faculty team can be found at: http://drgn.in/9ZzjYy

Further Details

Please note that the Moodle course may appear with a blue or grey title link on the home page - possibly at the bottom of the list of courses - so please be sure to check the entire list before contacting the team.

An explanation of the differences between the blue and grey titled courses can be found at: http://drgn.in/a0GFYg