2. TO MANAGING ROLES, FOLLOW THE NEXT STEPS
1. STEP: Log into the
Moodle Dashboard
2. STEP:
Navigate to:
•Site administration
•Users
•Permissions
•Define roles in
the Settings section on
the left.
3. 3. STEP:
The Define Roles page
should load with the
following preset roles
in the list. These can
be edited or deleted
depending on what
the administrator
wants to do. Usually
these roles are left as
their default settings.
Below is a brief
explanation of the
default roles
4. 4. STEP:
To create roles other
than the default roles,
click Add a new role.
The add new role
section has a
voluminous list of
Permission options in
the List of
Capabilities. Each
Permission will have a
Warning for the
admin to see what
Risk will occur if the
specific Role is given
the Permission .
5. MANAGE, ASSIGN, OVERRIDE, AND SWITCH ROLES TABS
Manage roles
This section is for creating new roles or editing
existing roles. Roles are a presets of permissions
that allow users to access certain functions of the
Moodle site.
Allow role
assignments
This section allows the administrator to assign
roles that enable other roles to assign roles.
Allow role
overrides
Gives a role the ability to over ride other roles.
Allow role
switches
Roles can be set to allow them to switch to a
different role.
6. In summary: Moodle has 8 predefined roles. These include:
• Site administrators: have permissions to do anything. Users may be
assigned the role of site administrator by another site administrator in
Settings > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Site administrators,
but the role itself cannot be edited (or deleted).
• Manager role: enables users assigned the role to access courses and
modify them. The Manager role is a normal role, like Course Creator, or
Teacher. The Manager role allows a site Administrator to give very
powerful roles to others who are assigned a Manager role, but without
having to give them a full Administrator role.
• Teacher role: can do anything within a course, including changing the
activities and grading students.
• Students role: in Moodle can participate in course activities and view
resources but not alter them or see the class gradebook. Administrators
and Teachers determine how a student enrolls, and what they can do or
see in a Moodle site.
7. Moodle has 8 pre-defined roles.
These include:
• Course creator: A user assigned the role of Course creator may
create courses, be assigned the role of teacher for these courses (or
not, if preferred) and view hidden courses.
• Gest role: always have "read-only" access - meaning they can't
leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students.
• Authenticated user role: When a user logs in, they are
automatically assigned the role of authenticated user.A user will
have additional roles as well as the authenticated user role
according to where they are in Moodle, such as student in a course.
Authenticated users have permission to edit their own profile, send
messages, blog and do other things outside of courses.
• Non-editing teacher role: is able within a course to view and grade
students' work but may not alter or delete any of the activities or
resources.
