If your External Examiner requires a NILE account, or if you are not sure what their NILE username is, please contact the External Examiners team.
Once you have your External Examiner's NILE username (this will normally be six digit number beginning 58), access your NILE site and select the Users option from the Users and Groups link in the module Control Panel.
Select the Find Users to Enrol button at the top of the page. Please note this step is important. Although it looks like a heading, you do need to click this before proceeding to the next step.
Type the External Examiner username into the Username text entry box. (This is usually a number beginning with 58).
Choose External Examiner from the Role drop-down menu.
Check the Enrolment Availability radio button is set to Yes.
Select Submit to proceed.
In each module-level NILE course there is an external examiner area which is accessible at the very bottom of the course menu. You can use this area to put documents into for your external examiner.
It is essential that the 'External examiner' area remains hidden from students at all times. As an additional precaution we also recommend that all files in the external examiner area are set to unavailable. Your external examiner will be able to access the content even if it is unavailable to students.
As shown in the screenshot below, the box with the diagonal line through it after 'External examiner' shows that the area is hidden from students. By default, the external examiner area in all NILE courses is always set to be hidden from students.
If for any reason your 'External examiner' area is not hidden from students, select it and choose 'Hide Link'. You will then see the box with the diagonal line though it indicating that it is hidden from students.
In the following screenshot, you can see that the file in the 'External examiner' area is also hidden from students.
To quickly make items unavailable to students, select the item and choose 'Make Unavailable'.
