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Expert portal overview
Expert
Experts (teachers, coaches, and subject leads) use the Expert login and a reduced admin-style menu focused on teaching. You work on assigned courses only: outlines, assignments, live sessions, learner messages, and reported quiz items. You do not change institute-wide plugins, the full student roster, or site content unless your role explicitly allows it.
The dashboard highlights upcoming work: messages, meetings, and teaching tasks. Update your password and phone from profile settings when your institute permits self-service changes.
What you can do here
Menu labels and visibility depend on plugins and administrator configuration.
- Manage courses: Edit outlines and publish activities for assigned courses
- Assignments: Create deadlines, review submissions, grade, comment
- Meetings: Schedule live sessions when a video provider is enabled
- Students: View learners in scope (policy varies by institute)
- Messages: Reply to student threads when messaging is enabled
- Reported questions: Triage quiz flags from your courses
Guided first week
See First steps for experts for a short onboarding path.
Students and communication
Manage students (within your scope) lists learners on assigned courses. Use it to understand who is enrolled before you message or grade.
Messages keeps official queries in the portal instead of personal chat apps. Reply from the expert messaging area when your deployment enables it.
Reported questions shows mock test items students flagged. Fix content in the mock editor or record a ruling; see Reported questions.
Daily workflow
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Sign in through Expert login on your institute URL.
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Open Manage courses and confirm assigned courses match your timetable.
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Publish or update outline activities before students expect new content.
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Check Messages and Reported questions for learner support.
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Create or grade assignments and schedule meetings for the week ahead.
What you gain
- One workspace for content, assessment, and communication
- Clear boundaries: assigned courses only, without platform-wide risk
- Faster responses when quizzes, assignments, and meetings share the same login
Troubleshooting
| Full admin menu appears | You may have used Admin login; use Expert login unless you hold both roles |
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| Course missing from list | Administrator course assignment on your expert profile |
| Cannot publish outline activity | Course assignment; save errors on the activity form |
| Meetings menu missing | Meeting provider plugin disabled; ask administrator |
| No messages | Messaging plugin or permissions; student must be enrolled |
See also
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