Managing role permissions
Let's learn how to manage permissions for existing roles in Moodle.
Cloning a role
It is possible to duplicate an existing role in Moodle. The main reasons for doing this will be so that you can have a variation of the existing role, such as a teacher, but with the role having reduced capabilities. For instance, to stop a teacher being able to add or remove students to the course, this process will be achieved by creating a course editing role, which is a clone of the standard editingteacher role with enrolment aspects removed. This is typically done when students are added to courses centrally with a student management system.
To duplicate a role, in this case editing teacher:
Log in as an administrator level user account.
In the Administration block, navigate to Site administration | Users | Permissions | Define roles:
Click on the Add a new role button:
Select an existing role from the Use role or archetype dropdown.
Click on Continue:
Enter the short role name in the...