Course creation for a university website requires a strong LMS platform which can handle different types of content, manage a large number of students, support all the peripherals like quizzes, assignments, multiple question types, provide various hierarchical course structures, control end-user access, enable drip-feed content, and provide discussion forums for the students enrolled in the course.

Using the ‘Instructor’ user role, which can be assigned like the other roles to your professors and teachers, Instructors can be created who add their own courses.

The advantage here is that assigning the Instructor user role limits the author’s capabilities towards interfering with the core university website. As an instructor, the author can create and manage their courses completely, including quiz creation, assignment management, gamification integration, etc., but they cannot meddle with any other part of the website, without being granted the requisite permission.