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| | {{Roles}}{{Moodle 1.7}}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. | | {{Roles}}{{Moodle 1.7}}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. |
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| − | :An identifier of the user's status. The status depends upon permissions given for one or more capabilities in a context.
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| − | ::For example Teacher and Student are standard user roles. The identifier indicates they probably have different capabilities in some contexts.
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| − | :When Moodle is first installed, a number of [[Standard roles]] are created automatically.
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| − | ;Capability
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| − | :A description of a particular Moodle feature. A list of many capabilities can be seen in the [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Category:Capabilities capability category index page].
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| − | ::For example [[Capabilities/moodle/blog:create|moodle/blog:create]](writing blog entries) or "Backup course" are two capabilities. Note the "<nowiki>mod/blog:create</nowiki>" notation is a common to identify a capability.
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| − | ;Permission
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| − | :A setting for a capability. Can be any one of four: not set/inherit, allow, prevent or prohibit.
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| − | ;Context
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| − | :A "space" in Moodle.
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| − | ::For example: a course, activity module or block can each be a context.
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| − | ::Some contexts can contain multiple contexts in their space, For example, a course can contain a lesson, assignment, forum and quiz modules, plus blocks.
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Revision as of 19:40, 22 September 2008
Template:Moodle 1.7Roles 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.
