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The Moodle software is designed to support a teaching-learning model. Its terminology (teacher, student, course, etc.) reflects this model. What you see and what you can do depends on what you have been authorized to do.

Authorization levels include:

• Not logged in - Some of the resources are available even if you're not logged in.
  
• Guest - If you don't supply your own credentials, you may log in as a guest. You probably can't see much more than if you weren't logged in.
• Student - You will be able to see what courses are available and open to student enrollment.
• Student enrolled in a course - You have student-level authorization for activities in that course. Exactly what that means depends on what the teacher(s) of that course have created for you.
• Teacher - Each course has at least one teacher. The teacher can create and modify resources (e.g. web pages, forums, wikis, glossaries, quizzes) for his/her course. Teachers control student access to resources in the course.
• Course creator - A user can be authorized to create new courses and assign a teacher for a newly created course.
• Site admistrator - A site administrator has the highest authorization level. S/he can make global configuration changes to the site, assign the authorization level of users, and many other site tasks. In general, every site administrator can access and modify any site resource.

When you first enter a course, you will be asked if you want to "enroll" in that course. Answer yes. For us, that just means you want to join that discussion group. This gives you the "student enrolled in course" privileges.