"Switch Role To…" Explained

When you switch role to student, you get to view, but not interact with the Moodle system as a student:

The system knows you are actually logged into the course in an account that has Instructor role, and since that role cannot earn a grade in that course, you're in a "you can look, but you can't touch" situation. If you want to truly view and interact with a course like a student, enroll and login to one of the fake/dummy student accounts.

1. Click on the settings gear in the upper right, and then click "More…" at the bottom of the dropdown menu:

2. Click the "Users" tab, and then the "Enrolled users" link:

3. Click on the "Enroll users" button on the right side:

4. A popup will appear. Run a search for "student" in the search field. You will see our five fake students (they are all brothers). Select one of them and click the "Enroll users" button at the bottom right of the popup:

At this point, you can access the course via an incognito (or a "private" window in Firefox) as that fake student. The username and password is the numerical digit associated with the name.

Now you can view and interact with your course as a student!