Moodle comes with a number of predefined roles. These standard roles are suitable for some educational setups, but most institutions require modifications to the roles' system in order to tailor Moodle to their specific needs.
Each role has permissions for a number of actions that can be carried out in Moodle. For example, an administrator and a course creator are able to create new courses, whereas all other roles are denied this right. Likewise, a teacher is allowed to moderate forums, whereas students are only allowed to contribute to them.
The description of each standard role and the short names (that are used internally and in operations such as user batch upload, covered in the previous chapter) given by Moodle are listed in the table that follows:
|
Role |
Description |
Short Name |
|---|---|---|
|
Administrator |
Administrators have full access to the entire site and all courses. |
admin |
|
Course creator |
Course creators can create new courses and also teach them. |
coursecreator... |