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In July 2020, the Author view was made part of the Administrator view, and no longer appears as a standalone view option. Admins with authoring permissions now select the Administrator view > Courses screen. From here they can build and edit courses and review learner reports.
In order to add authors to a course, you must:
- Invite or enroll the individual to your site.
- Make the user an author using the Administrator view if they don't already have the author role.
1. Invite or enroll the author
Users must join your site before they can be given different roles:
2. Give users the author role
- Sign in and open your Administration tools. If you don't see the gear icon, you don't have administrator permissions.
- Open the Authors screen and click the Add author button.
- From the Assigned courses dropdown, select any existing course(s) that you want this user to have author permissions for.
- Click Add author for existing users and Invite new user if not.
Note: You can change which courses an author has access to in two ways:
- Return to the Administrator > Authors screen and use the Edit assigned courses tool in the Actions menu.
- From the Author > General screen, shown below.
Add an author to a course
- Sign in and open your Administration tools. If you don't see the gear icon, you don't have administrator permissions.
- Open the Courses screen and click the pencil [edit] icon next to the course you want to add the author to.
- Click Settings, scroll to the Authors card, and check the boxes next to the desired author(s). If the desired author doesn't appear, they need to be added as an author in your site.
