Roles and permissions

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Roles and permissions

• Managing roles
• Assign roles
• Roles settings
• Using roles
• Standard roles
• Creating custom roles
• Permissions
• Override permissions
• Roles FAQ

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.

Definitions

Role

An identifier of the user's status in some context, for example Teacher, Student and Forum moderator

Capability

A description of a particular Moodle feature, for example moodle/blog:create

Permission

A setting for a capability - not set/inherit, allow, prevent or prohibit

Context

A "space" in Moodle, such as courses, activity modules or blocks

See also

• Development:Roles
• Category:Capabilities
• Using Moodle Roles and Capabilities forum
• Upgrading to Moodle 1.7
• Upgrading to Moodle 1.8