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A role is a collection of permissions defined for the whole system that you can assign to specific users in specific contexts. The combination of roles and context define a specific user's ability to do something on any page.  The most common examples are the roles of student and teacher in the context of a course.  
Roles and capabilities in Moodle 1.7 onwards provides great flexibility in managing how users interact. Prior to Moodle 1.7, there were only six roles possible: guest, student, non-editing teacher, editing teacher, course creator, and administrator. Whilst these roles may still be used, it's now possible to create additional roles, and to change what a given role can do in a particular activity.


==Definitions==
*[[Managing roles]]
;Role
*[[Roles settings]]
:An identifier of the user's status in some context, for example Teacher, Student and Forum moderator
*[[Using roles]]
;Capability
*[[Standard roles]]
:A description of a particular Moodle feature, for example [[Capabilities/moodle/blog:create|moodle/blog:create]]
*[[Creating custom roles]]
;Permission
*[[Permissions]]
:A setting for a capability
*[[Override permissions]]
;Context
:A "space" in Moodle, such as courses, activity modules or blocks


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Development:Roles]]
 
*[[:Category:Capabilities]]
*[[Roles FAQ]]
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=6826 Roles and Capabilities forum]
*[[Upgrading to Moodle 1.7]]
*[[Upgrading to Moodle 1.8]]


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Latest revision as of 07:59, 24 October 2011

A role is a collection of permissions defined for the whole system that you can assign to specific users in specific contexts. The combination of roles and context define a specific user's ability to do something on any page. The most common examples are the roles of student and teacher in the context of a course.

See also