User roles
There are five user roles at Lingvomaster:
- Guest (if you’re not registered)
- Student
- Author
- Teacher
- Administrator
Guests can:
- Register at the portal
- View all the main site parts: Portal News, Course catalogue, Help, Contact, About and other
- View Course Info pages
- View demo pages of the courses (please, consider that not all courses have their demo pages. Some authors don’t create any demo pages)
- View course news
After registration users get a default user role “Student”. Students apply for courses for further online learning. Students can:
- Upgrade their accounts and become Authors and Teachers
- Apply for courses and get access to closed pages and course tests
- Apply for student groups or get invitations from group teachers
- View the academic plan of the student group
- Get course invitations from portal authors
- Chat with course authors, teachers and fellow students
- Comment courses
- Comment course news
- View own course statistics
Authors create own courses and update course content. Authors can:
- Create a course and set access type for their courses
- Manage course members by accepting or declining course applications or by sending course invitations to students
- Manage course teachers by inviting them to the course
- Add texts, tasks, audio, video content and tests to the course
- Set access type to different course pages
- Post course news and comments
- View general course statistics and statistics on every course member
Teachers create and manage student groups – this way users can organize a more transparent and consistent learning process. Teachers can:
- Accept or decline invitations from course authors
- Create and manage student groups
- Create and update the academic plan for the student groups
- View course statistics on every group member
Administrators manage the whole portal. Administrators update the main site content, post portal news and help users in case of any issues.
