Users
Assign Roles
What are Roles in Moodle?
Your status of a course in SPIRE determines the role you are initially given in a Moodle course.
Instructors can add abilities for individual users enrolled in their course by adding a "role." Roles can be added at the course level, or only for a particular resource or activity.
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Roles are "additive". They add new privileges without blocking what the user already can do.
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Allow a Non-editing Teacher (TA) to upload materials and add content to a course (Course Designer).
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Allow a Non-editing Teacher (TA) to have full access to the grade book (TA - Manage Gradebook).
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Give a Student unlimited time on any quiz assigned in the course (Student - Unlimited quiz time).
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Give a Student access to a to a previous semester's course and allow them to complete assigned work. (Student - with Incomplete).
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Allow a course member to use the Quickmail block (Access Quickmail Block).
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Allow a course member to post in the Announcements forum (Post to Announcements).
Step 1: Go to the Administration block and click Users, then click on Enrolled Users. The Enrolled users page will open.
Step 2: Locate the individual you would like to add a role. The list may be more than one page for a large class. You can sort the list by clicking the top-left header to sort by First name, Last name or Email address.
Step 3: Following the individual's role, click on the Roles column with an +. The Assign Roles pop-up will appear.
Step 4:
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To add a role: click the role name. The Assign roles pop-up will close. The added role will appear next to the previously existing roles.
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To remove a role: click X next to that role for a particular user. The Confirm role change pop-up will open. Click Remove. The Confirm role pop-up will close and the role will no longer be listed behind the user.