ROLES

When your course is created, you have the role of an “Instructor”. When students enroll in your course, they will have the role of “Student”. Other roles that exist in your course are “Non-editing instructor” and “Guest”. So a role is the collection of permissions that defines what you can do in the course which you are assigned to.

As an instructor, you will be able to Override roles either on the course level or on a specific activity like Forum and block level like Calendar for the following roles:

• Non-editing instructor
• Student
• Guest

Basically, roles simply give you the flexibility to decide who gets to do what.

The following example shows the benefit of overriding roles in your Moodle course:

In the News Forum, only the Instructor can post discussions, students can’t post or reply to discussions. What if you want to allow students to be able to post an announcement in the News Forum? In that case you can override their role in that specific activity to allow them to post announcements.