Question permissions

Roles and capabilities are combined with Question categories to give a user permission to create, edit and view questions in the Question bank. For example, a combination might allow a student being able to edit questions in a specific quiz activity or all science teachers being able to use the question categories created for their department and not view other departments categories. In short, question categories are contexts (see Question contexts) and work with roles to determine a user's permissions in managing individual questions.

Brief review of permission concepts

The 2.0 Moodle Question bank simplifies the task of orrganization of questions but the terminology can be confusing. In general, a set of questions is created in what is called a question category. A question category is like a folder in a computer file system or in file cabinate. Like a file folder, a question categgory might contain other question categories or just a set of questions. Permissions are assigned to question categories. The nesting (placing of a question category within another question category) can create a hieracary of permissions when it comes to dealing with individual questions located in a question caterory.

By default a course teacher does not have permission to do anything with questions placed in a category outside the course in which they are assigned a teacher role. By default, students can not even see the Question bank or edit any question. The default permissions can be changed to meet specific goals of a site, a course or even a specific quiz actiivity.

Technical notes for administrators

For users who have privilages to alter the permissisiona for a role, here are some permissions that effect Question bank and its management and use:

• moodle/question:config
• question:managecategory
• moodle/question:add - determines whether a user has permission to import questions

• moodle/question:editall
• moodle/question:editmine
• moodle/question:moveall
• moodle/question:movemine
• moodle/question:useall
• moodle/question:usemine
• moodle/question:viewall
• moodle/question:viewmine
• Certain capabilities contain the words 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

See also

• How to let teachers share questions between courses
• Question permissions explained with diagrams
• Question creator role

Using Moodle forum discussions:

• capability for editing new questions
• examining present capabilities for questions