Roles and Permissions

Roles and permissions form the access-control system that determines what each user can see and do within an LMS. A role (such as learner, teacher, manager or administrator) is a named collection of capabilities — individual permissions like 'submit an assignment', 'grade work' or 'install plugins'. In Moodle, roles are assigned within a context: the whole site, a course category, a single course, or even one activity, so the same person can be a teacher in one course and a student in another. This granular, context-aware model lets organisations enforce least-privilege access, delegate management safely, and create custom roles tailored to their structure. Understanding roles and permissions is essential to administering any LMS securely and to giving each type of user exactly the access they need.