Getting started with a high-level overview
To give you an overview of courses, users, and roles, let's have a look at Figure 3.1. It shows nicely how central these three concepts are and also how other important features are related to them. Again, all of their intricacies will be dealt with in due course, so for now, let's just start getting familiar with some Moodle terminology:
Figure 3.1 – Core Moodle concepts
Let's start at the bottom-left and cycle through the pyramid in a roughly clockwise fashion. Users have to go through an Authentication process to get access to Moodle. They then have to go through the Enrolments step to be able to participate in Courses, which themselves are organized into Categories. Groups and Cohorts are different ways to group users at a course level or site-wide, respectively. Users are granted Roles in particular Contexts which are ring-fenced Moodle areas. Which role is allowed to do what and which isn...