Roles and permissions: Difference between revisions

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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.

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-{{Roles and capabilities}}
+{{Managing a Moodle site}}
-<p class="note">'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#Roles and capabilities|these notes]] before editing this page.'''</p>
+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 are groups of permissions.  Users are assigned roles in specific contexts.  The combination 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.
-''':Note:''' In many instances "capabilities" and "permissions" are used interchangeably, but they are actually a pair. Capabilities are  editable variables, whereas permissions are the value give to a capability.
+*[[Managing roles]]
+*[[Assign roles]]
-==Definitions==
+*[[User policies]]
-;Role
+*[[Using roles]]
-:An identifier of the user's status within each Context. The status depends upon permissions given for one or more capabilities in any given context. A role can often change within different contexts.
+*[[Standard 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.
+*[[Creating custom roles]]
-:When Moodle is first installed, a number of [[Standard roles]] are created automatically.
+*[[Role export and import]]
-;Capability
+*[[Permissions]]
-: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].
+*[[Override permissions]]
-::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.
-;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.
 ==See also==
-*[[Useful things a teacher can do with roles]]
+*[[Roles FAQ]]
-*[[Development:Roles administration improvements for Moodle 2.0]]
-*[[How permissions are calculated]]
-*[[:Category:Capabilities]]
-*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=6826 Roles and Capabilities forum]
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+[[es:Roles y permisos]]
-[[es:Roles y capacidades]]
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-[[fr:Rôles et capacités]]
+[[fr:Rôles et permissions]]
 [[ja:ロールおよびケイパビリティ]]
-[[ru:Роли и возможности]]
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Roles and permissions: Difference between revisions

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