Met with History professor Norm Fennema today regarding moodle. He's keen to use the system, and understands that we're just learning how things work. His primary interest is in using moodle as a content delivery tool rather than a course delivery mechanism. Basically, it's a webpage to hold course stuff like a syllabus, assignments and so forth as opposed to wikis, blogs etc.

With that in mind, I've set him up as a user and created three courses for him: Hist245, Hist367 and CS102.

Documentation:
This is documented due to a confusing overlap of functionality in the assignation of roles in moodle.
I found that just assigning roles is not enough. If roles get assigned on a global level (Users>Permissions>Assign roles) everyone gets added to every course - no good. What you need to do is create categories and sub-categories (as in Humanities>French, Humanities>History), create courses inside that context and then assign roles inside that context.