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Demo teacher role

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The role of Demo teacher may be used to provide a demonstration teacher account with a password and profile which can't be changed.

Role set-up

  1. Access Settings > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles
  2. Click the button "Add a new role"
  3. Give the role a name (e.g. Restricted user), short name and description
  4. Change the capabilities moodle/user:changeownpassword and moodle/user:editownprofile to prevent.
  5. Click the button "Add a new role"

Account and course set-up

  1. Create a demo teacher account via Settings > Site administration > Users > Accounts > Add a new user
  2. Create a course for the demo teacher

Role assignment

The demo teacher account should be assigned the role of Teacher in the course context and assigned the role of restricted user in the system context.

To assign the role of restricted user:

  1. Access Settings > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Assign system roles
  2. Choose the restricted user role to assign
  3. Select the demo teacher user in the potential users list, and use the left-facing arrow button to add it to the existing users list