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Researcher role

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Researchers at Moodle-using institutions can be supported by creating a special Role at the site level with capabilities specific to researchers. This can be based on the Manager role, or can be a new role that can be added to users with other roles in the system. The most relevant capabilities to provide to researchers include:

A user with this role will be able to see all insights, but not all insights actions are available to this researcher user because action links depend on other capabilities (e.g. before showing enrol users link as a suggested action for a course without teachers we check that the user can enrol users).