Figure 16-2. Managing roles
external inspectors or college principals with permission to view all courses on your Moodle site. To add an inspector role: 1. Click on Permissions in the Site Administration block, then “Define roles.” 2. On the “Manage roles” tab, as shown earlier in Figure 16-2, click the “Add a new role” button. 3. On the “Add a new role” page, give the role a name, e.g., Inspector. 4. Give the role a meaningful short name. The short name is necessary for other plugins in Moodle that may need to refer to the role (for example, when uploading users from a file or setting enrollments via an enrollment plug-in). 5. Give the role a description (optional). 6. Set the “View courses” capability to “allow.” 7. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the “Add a new role” button. You will then need to assign the inspector role as a global role (as described in the next section). To test a new role: 1. Create a test user and assign the new role to them. 2. Either log out as the administrator and then log in as the test user, or use a different browser to log in as the test user. Role changes only take effect when the user next logs in.
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