Forum poster role

The forum poster role is a highly restricted custom role which may be given to a visitor account to enable them to post in forums in a guest access course.

Note that guests (ie, non-logged in users) are not able to post in forums even though the permissions suggest otherwise.

This role provides a workaround for situations where you have a course open to guests and you want to allow users not usually in your Moodle site to be able to contribute to discussion.

Note that you first need to create an account to be used by any visitor, for example: username=visitor and password = visitor (or a password following your own restrictions)

Creating a new role

1.As an administrator, go to Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles and click the 'Add a new role' button at the bottom of the screen.

2.On the next screen, ignore archetypes and presets and click 'Continue'

3.Give the role a name and if desired a description and tick the "System" and "Course" context:

4.Click the 'Show advanced' button.

5. In the filter, type forum and from the search results, set 'Reply to posts', 'Start new discussions' and 'View discussions' to Allow

6. In the filter, type profile and from the search results, set 'Edit own profile', and 'View user profiles' and to Prohibit

7. In the filter, type password and from the search results, set 'Change own password' to Prohibit

8. You may, according to the needs of your organisation, want to restrict other capabilities too.

9.Click the 'Create this role' button.