Roles and permissions

Users can have roles in the LMS at a system level and at course level.

At system level, the most common roles are 

• Administrator/Manager
• Course creator

An administrator can, for example.

• Add new users
• Delete users
• Add and edit course categories
• Add and edit courses
• Add and delete participants on courses
• Edit theme settings

A course creator can

• Add a new course
• Edit a course they have added
• Add and remove participants from a course

When adding a new course, the course creator is automatically assigned the role of teacher in the course.

At course level, roles include

• Teacher
• Non-editing teacher
• Student

The teacher can

• Edit the course content
• Add and remove participants from the course
• Track the progress of students on the course

A non-editing teacher can 

• Track the progress of students on the course

Students can

• Access the course materials and resources
• Complete assignments
• Monitor their own progress on the course

Assigning system roles

• Go to Site administration
• Select Users
• From Permissions select Assign system roles

• Choose the role you wish to assign by clicking on the name of the role.
• The people who already are assigned to the role can be seen in the box on the left side of the screen (Existing users)
• You can search for people to assign the role to on the right side (Potential users)
• Search for the person, click on their name to select and click Add

The role will be active immediately and no saving is required.

You can find more detailed information on moodle.org.