Question permissions

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Roles and capabilities are combined with Question categories to give a user permission to create, edit and view questions in the Question bank. For example, a combination might allow a student being able to edit questions in a specific quiz activity or all science teachers being able to use the question categories created for their department and not view other departments categories. In short, question categories are contexts (see Question contexts) and work with roles to determine a user's permissions in managing individual questions.

Also, Question permissions allow a user to grant other users permissions. For example, a teacher in a course may decide to share their questions located in a specific course question category with other teachers who do not have permission to enter their course. This is all done with permissions that are given to a role in a specific context.

Question capabilities

  • Certain capabilities contain the words all or mine:
    • all means all questions, and if you have the all capability, mine is not tested.
    • mine means that you have the capability for your questions but not for questions created by others