Impersonating the test student

To see your course from a student’s perspective, you can impersonate the test student in your course. While impersonating the test student you can post to a discussion, take a quiz, submit to a dropbox and then, as yourself, go back and grade those items to ensure that everything is working as expected.

Step-by-step guide

1. Click Connect from the course navbar.

2. Click Classlist from the menu.

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3. Click on the Test Student tab.

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4. Click on the down arrow to the right of the test student's name in the classlist and click Impersonate.

5. A confirmation pop-up window will appear, click Yes to begin impersonating the student.

    

6. To confirm that you are impersonating the test student, look at the top right-hand corner of the LEARN page. You should see Test Student where your name normally appears.

7. To Stop impersonating the test student, click on the Test Student’s name n the top right-hand corner of the LEARN page.

8. Click the X to the right of the test student’s name to end the impersonation and return to your view of the course.

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