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==Roles and Capabilities== | ==Roles and Capabilities== | ||
Roles and Capabilities are planned to be included in Moodle 1.7. For now, we have some basic ideas of how to implement such a structure in Moodle. | Roles and Capabilities are planned to be included in Moodle 1.7. For now, we have some basic ideas of how to implement such a structure in Moodle. Please note that non of the following is finalised. | ||
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By roles, we mean an identifier of the user's status, for example, 'Teacher', 'Student', and 'Forum Moderator' are examples of Roles. | By roles, we mean an identifier of the user's status, for example, 'Teacher', 'Student', and 'Forum Moderator' are examples of Roles. | ||
A capability is a permission to access some particular Moodle feature. Capabilities are associated with roles. For example, can_read_forum_post is a capability. | A capability is a permission to access some particular Moodle feature. Capabilities are associated with roles. For example, can_read_forum_post is a capability. | ||
[[The Existing Roles and | [[The Existing Roles and Capabilities System]] | ||
Currently in Moodle, we have a fixed set of Roles. For example, we have the primarty admin, admins, course creators, editting teachers, non-editting teachers, students, and guests. For each role, the capability or actions that they can performed are fixed. For example, the role student will allow the user to submit an assignment, but not allowing the user to browse/edit some other user's work. However, by using this setup, we limit ourselves to a rather rigid set of capabilities for each role. If we want, say a particular student or group to be able to mark assignments in a particular course, we can't do that without giving these users all teacher privilages. | Currently in Moodle, we have a fixed set of Roles. For example, we have the primarty admin, admins, course creators, editting teachers, non-editting teachers, students, and guests. For each role, the capability or actions that they can performed are fixed. For example, the role student will allow the user to submit an assignment, but not allowing the user to browse/edit some other user's work. However, by using this setup, we limit ourselves to a rather rigid set of capabilities for each role. If we want, say a particular student or group to be able to mark assignments in a particular course, we can't do that without giving these users all teacher privilages. | ||
[[The new Roles and Capability System]] | |||
The new system will allow authorized users to define arbitray number of Roles. Each role can have a customizable set of capabilities in every context. A context can be the whole moodle site, a course, or a module instance, e.g. quiz 5 in 'Introduction to Photography'. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 06:01, 15 May 2006
Roles and Capabilities
Roles and Capabilities are planned to be included in Moodle 1.7. For now, we have some basic ideas of how to implement such a structure in Moodle. Please note that non of the following is finalised.
By roles, we mean an identifier of the user's status, for example, 'Teacher', 'Student', and 'Forum Moderator' are examples of Roles.
A capability is a permission to access some particular Moodle feature. Capabilities are associated with roles. For example, can_read_forum_post is a capability.
The Existing Roles and Capabilities System
Currently in Moodle, we have a fixed set of Roles. For example, we have the primarty admin, admins, course creators, editting teachers, non-editting teachers, students, and guests. For each role, the capability or actions that they can performed are fixed. For example, the role student will allow the user to submit an assignment, but not allowing the user to browse/edit some other user's work. However, by using this setup, we limit ourselves to a rather rigid set of capabilities for each role. If we want, say a particular student or group to be able to mark assignments in a particular course, we can't do that without giving these users all teacher privilages.
The new Roles and Capability System
The new system will allow authorized users to define arbitray number of Roles. Each role can have a customizable set of capabilities in every context. A context can be the whole moodle site, a course, or a module instance, e.g. quiz 5 in 'Introduction to Photography'.
See also
- Using Moodle Roles and Permissions architecture forum discussion
