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Creating custom roles Creating a new role To create a custom role: Go to Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles. Click the “Add a new role” button. If desired, select an existing role or upload a … Continued

Managing roles Managing overall role capabilities can be done by an administrator using Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles. This is the place to add custom roles or modify existing roles. The “Manage roles” tab, allows … Continued

Assign roles Context and roles In Moodle, apart from the site administrator, users do not normally have a global, site-wide role. In other words, even though you may be a teacher offline, when you are in Moodle you could have … Continued

Using roles Below are just a few creative examples of uses of roles and permissions in various settings. Give a student forum moderator rights How: Assign the role of non-editing teacher in the module context, via the “Locally assigned roles” … Continued

Roles FAQ What is the definition of a… Capability A configurable aspect of program behavior. Moodle has 100s of capabilities. Each capability has a computer friendly name like mod/forum:rateand a human-friendly name like “Rate posts.” Permission Permissions are paired with each … Continued

Switch roles Switching temporarily to another role The switch roles feature allows a user to switch temporarily to another role from the user menu ‘Switch role’ so that they can see what the course would look like to someone with … Continued