Assign roles

Overview of role

A role is assigned to a participant and determines their status or privilages in the context of a site, course or activity. Site roles are assigned in the administration block, Users>Permissions>Assign roles. Course roles are assigned in their Administration block menu under Assign roles.

This page is about assigning an existing role to a user.

Description of roles

Moodle comes with 6 pre defined roles. It is possible to create other roles in the site administration block, also found under User.

• • Administrator - Assign admins
  • Course creator - Course_creator
  • Teacher - Teacher
  • Non-editing teacher
  • Student - Student
  • Guest - Guest access

Assign/Edit Roles

File:Administration Block Roles IconLink.JPGThe Assign roles link will call up the assign role screen. Here users are placed in role catagories. It is possible to assign 1 participant to multiple roles. This includes the context of the site, of an individual course and of multiple courses.

In the image below, we are ready to add another site user on the right then click on the add left arrow button to join Mr. Witt. We could remove Mr. Witt from the course as a student, by highlighting his name, then clicking on the add right arrow button.

Override Role

The Override role tab allows a user with the necessary role privilages to give and take away privilages for other roles in the context of a course.

See also

Manage roles describes how to add or edit existing roles