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 and cannot see and 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's start with a short definition that should be borne in mind when managing permissions.
Note
A role is a collection of capabilities with corresponding permissions.
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