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<p class="note">'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#Roles and capabilities|these notes]] before editing this page.'''</p> | <p class="note">'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#Roles and capabilities|these notes]] before editing this page.'''</p> | ||
Roles | Roles are groups of permissions. Users are assigned roles in specific contexts. The combinatin of roles and context define a specific user's capability on any page. The most common example are the roles of student and teacher in the context of a course. | ||
==Definitions== | ==Definitions== | ||
;Role | ;Role | ||
:An identifier of the user's status. The status depends upon permissions given for one or more capabilities in a context. | :An identifier of the user's status. The status depends upon permissions given for one or more capabilities in a context. | ||
::For example Teacher and Student are standard user roles. | ::For example Teacher and Student are standard user roles. These roles probably have different capabilities in some contexts but may share permissions in the other. | ||
:When Moodle is first installed, a number of [[Standard roles]] are created automatically. | :When Moodle is first installed, a number of [[Standard roles]] are created automatically. | ||
;Capability | ;Capability | ||
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Please refer to these notes before editing this page.
Roles are groups of permissions. Users are assigned roles in specific contexts. The combinatin of roles and context define a specific user's capability on any page. The most common example are the roles of student and teacher in the context of a course.
Definitions
- Role
- An identifier of the user's status. The status depends upon permissions given for one or more capabilities in a context.
- For example Teacher and Student are standard user roles. These roles probably have different capabilities in some contexts but may share permissions in the other.
- When Moodle is first installed, a number of Standard roles are created automatically.
- Capability
- A description of a particular Moodle feature. A list of many capabilities can be seen in the capability category index page.
- For example moodle/blog:create(writing blog entries) or "Backup course" are two capabilities. Note the "mod/blog:create" notation is a common to identify a capability.
- Permission
- A setting for a capability. Can be any one of four: not set/inherit, allow, prevent or prohibit.
- Context
- A "space" in Moodle.
- For example: a course, activity module or block can each be a context.
- Some contexts can contain multiple contexts in their space, For example, a course can contain a lesson, assignment, forum and quiz modules, plus blocks.
