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Moodle 4 Administration

You're reading from   Moodle 4 Administration An administrator's guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816724
Length 640 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Installing Moodle 2. Chapter 2: Exploring the Moodle System FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Exploring Courses, Users, and Roles 4. Chapter 4: Managing Courses and Enrolments 5. Chapter 5: Managing Users, Cohorts, and Authentication 6. Chapter 6: Managing Permissions, Roles, and Capabilities 7. Chapter 7: Enhancing Moodle’s Look and Feel 8. Chapter 8: Understanding Moodle Plugins 9. Chapter 9: Configuring Educational Features 10. Chapter 10: Configuring Technical Features 11. Chapter 11: Enabling Mobile Learning 12. Chapter 12: Gaining Insights through Moodle Reporting and Analytics 13. Chapter 13: Ensuring Moodle Security 14. Chapter 14: Complying with Data Protection Regulations 15. Chapter 15: Optimizing Moodle Performance 16. Chapter 16: Avoiding Sleepless Nights – Moodle Backup and Restore 17. Chapter 17: Working with Moodle Admin Tools 18. Chapter 18: Integrating External Systems Using Moodle Web Services 19. Chapter 19: Setting Up Moodle Networking 20. Chapter 20: Supporting Multi-Tenancy 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Configuration Settings

Exploring Moodle’s predefined roles

Moodle comes with several predefined roles. These standard roles are suitable for most educational setups, but some institutions require modifications to be made to the roles system to tailor Moodle to their specific needs.

Each role has capabilities for several actions that can be carried out. For example, an administrator and a course creator can create new courses, whereas all the other roles are denied this right. Likewise, a teacher is allowed to moderate forums, whereas students can only 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, are listed in the following table (taken from Site administration | User | Permissions | Define roles):

Figure 6.2 – Moodle’s predefined roles

Moodle Workplace has various extra roles to handle its business-oriented audience, such as tenant administrator, certification...

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