Inspector role

The role of Inspector may be used to provide external inspectors with permission to view all courses (without being required to enrol).

Role set-up

1. Access Administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles
2. Click the button "Add a new role"
3. Give the role a name e.g. Inspector, short name and description
4. Change the capability moodle/course:view to allow
5. Click the button "Add a new role"

Role assignment

1. Access Administration > Users > Permissions > Assign system roles
2. Choose the role to assign
3. Select a user in the potential users list, and use the left-facing arrow button to add it to the existing users list
4. Optional (from 1.8 onwards): To hide an Inspector role user, click the "Hidden assignments" check box before adding them to the existing users list. (If this is not done, then the user is listed as a course participant.)

Notes

Since the inspector role has been given the moodle/course:view capability, inspectors will

• see all courses in their "My Courses" list, in "My Moodle", etc.,
• see events from all courses in their personal calendar,
• be shown to teachers as a course participant in any case (though marked as "hidden assignment" if set up this way).

See also

• Manage roles - including testing a new role
• Video showing how to create an inspector role in Moodle
• MDL-21586 - hide results of "inspector" role assignments from Moodle Calendar and My Courses