Chapter 6. Managing Permissions: Roles and Capabilities

We already touched upon permissions in Chapter 3, Courses, Users, and Roles. Now we want to cover roles and capabilities fully, which is a complex but powerful subject. Roles define what users can or can't see and what they can or can't do in your Moodle system.

In this chapter, we will:

• Understand how permissions work and how they fit into different contexts

• Assign roles to different users in different contexts

• Modify roles and create new ones, including a role for parents or mentors

• Manage a range of administrative role-related settings.

Let us start with a short definition that should be borne in mind when managing permissions:

Note

A role is a collection of capabilities.