{"id":980,"date":"2023-09-07T14:21:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.moodleanswers.com\/switching-from-instructor-to-student-view\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T20:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:49:52","slug":"switching-from-instructor-to-student-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/2023\/09\/07\/switching-from-instructor-to-student-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching from Instructor to Student View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an instructor, you may want to switch your role to student view to see your course from a student perspective.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To switch roles:<\/p>\n<p>Once you are in your Moodle course, find your user dropdown list at the top right. Click on\u00a0<strong>Switch role to<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-977\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2023\/09\/switch_role_to-d1c.png\" width=\"415\" height=\"389\" loading=\"lazy\" data-path=\"local-images:\/New Theme 4.1\/switch_role_to.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2023\/09\/switch_role_to-d1c.png 415w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2023\/09\/switch_role_to-d1c-300x281.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Choose\u00a0<strong>student<\/strong> from the list of options.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-978\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2023\/09\/student_role-447.png\" width=\"585\" height=\"530\" loading=\"lazy\" data-path=\"local-images:\/New Theme 4.1\/student_role.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2023\/09\/student_role-447.png 585w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2023\/09\/student_role-447-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You will now see your course from the student&#8217;s perspective.<\/p>\n<p>To switch your role back to instructor, you may again find your user dropdown list at the top right. Click on <b>Return to my normal role<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-979\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2023\/09\/return_to_normal_role-f0e.png\" width=\"304\" height=\"358\" loading=\"lazy\" data-path=\"local-images:\/New Theme 4.1\/return_to_normal_role.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2023\/09\/return_to_normal_role-f0e.png 304w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2023\/09\/return_to_normal_role-f0e-255x300.png 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an instructor, you may want to switch your role to student view to see your course from a student perspective.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,20,5],"tags":[178,179,41],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-information","category-_instructor-tutorials","category-users-and-groups","tag-moodle-groups","tag-moodle-users","tag-moodle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}