ARCHIVED: In Oncourse, as an instructor or site owner, how can I see what my students or participants see?

The simplest way to see your course or project site as a student is to click Enter student view in the upper right. To return to your normal view, click Exit student view.

Note the following considerations:

• Tests & Surveys: In Tests & Surveys, you can use either the global student view option described above, or you can preview an individual assessment. To preview an individual assessment in Tests & Surveys, click the --Select Action-- menu next to the desired assessment, and then click Preview.
• Gradebook: You can use the student view in the Gradebook tool, but because you cannot assign grades to yourself in your instructor role, you will not see what actual grades look like to students. If you want to see what this is like, you can create a Guest account, add that persona as a student to your course site or practice course site, and assign grades to that persona. Then log in using your Guest account to see your fictional grades. See the instructions below. (Note that doing so may alter your class grade averages.)
• Other roles: The student view option discussed above only allows you to see what participants in the student role see. If you want to see what users in another role might see (for instance, the member role in a project site), create a fictional persona to add to your site. See the instructions below.

Using a Guest account to view a site in a different role

1. Request and activate a Guest account; see About IU Guest accounts.
2. Log into Oncourse using your Network ID, and add the Guest account to your site in the desired role. See ARCHIVED: Adding, editing, or removing participants.
3. Log out of Oncourse, close all browser windows, and then log back in using the Guest account username and password.