Question permissions

Roles and capabilities in Moodle 1.7 onwards enable possibilities such as students being given permission to edit questions. The following capabilities are related to questions:

• moodle/question:config
• moodle/question:export
• moodle/question:import
• moodle/question:manage
• question:managecategory

Moodle1.9

From Moodle 1.9 onwards :

• the following capabilities replace moodle/question:manage :
  • moodle/question:add
  • moodle/question:editall
  • moodle/question:editmine
  • moodle/question:moveall
  • moodle/question:movemine
  • moodle/question:useall
  • moodle/question:usemine
  • moodle/question:viewall
  • moodle/question:viewmine
• Also from Moodle 1.9 we got rid of capabilities :
  • moodle/question:export
  • moodle/question:import
• From Moodle 1.9 we test for capabilities :
  • moodle/question:add to see if a user has permission to import questions.
  • And we test for permission moodle/question:viewall or moodle/question:viewmine to see if a user has permission to export.

*all or * mine

Moodle1.9

Notice that apart from the add capability other capabilities to manage questions are *all or * mine.

• *all means all questions and if you have the *all capability *mine is not tested.
• *mine means that you have the capability for your questions but not for questions created by others.

If you have the view capability for a question you can view a question created by another and 'Save as New Question' that creates a new question that is one you created and which you can then do anything you have *mine capability to do with.

Contexts and permissions

Moodle1.9

In Moodle 1.9 we have separate category hierarchies in Question contexts and the permissions for what you can do with a question depend on the context in which the question is.

See also

Moodle1.9

• Question Engine Changes in Moodle 1.9
• Question contexts
• Using Moodle capability for editing new questions and examining present capabilities for questions forum discussions