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Administrator role

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Admins (short for Administrators) can do anything and go anywhere in the site. In versions prior to 1.7, only the primary admin may assign or remove admin rights for other users. In 1.7 this is not true.


Creating new admins prior to Moodle 1.7

In order to assign an existing user on a Moodle site as an admin, one must first login as the primary admin user =

  1. On the Moodle site's home page, locate the "Administration" sideblock
  2. Click on the "Admin..." link located at the bottom of the block
  3. Click on the "Assign admins" link
  4. Select any of the users from the right column ('potential admins') of the screen and then click the "<" button.

To remove admin rights, simply follow the instructions above but select the existing admin from the left hand side and click the ">" button instead.

Assigning admin rights in Moodle 1.7 onwards

  1. Select the Users link in the Site Administration sideblock.
  2. Click on the link Permissions and then on the Assign Global Roles link. This should bring up and table of different roles, a description about them and the amount of users who are assigned to certain roles.
  3. Click the Administrator link and a two column table should appear. The left hand column should say Existing Users and the right hand column should say Potential Users In between these two columns should two buttons. One like this < and another like this >.
  4. Select the user you wish to 'promote' to Administrator and press the < button. The name of the user should move over to the Existing Users side. This works the opposite way too. You can 'demote' an administrator to a 'limbo' which allows the user to be moved to a different group.

Please note that this works for all groups and not just Administrator.

Roles in Moodle 1.7 onwards

There is no default primary administrator role in 1.7, just administrator. The new role system was designed to migrate users in with their previous site and/or course role assignments.

Remember in 1.7, it is possible to add a new roll (for example called) Primary Administrator and to slightly harden/restrict the Legacy Administrator role.

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