Moodle roles facilitate controlling what a user can and cannot do within a course.

Course-specific Roles

The default course roles are Teacher and Student. A librarian role and two types of assistant roles have been added to allow for the addition of a reference librarian and course assistants such as writing associates and lab assistants.

• Teacher - Teachers can do anything within a course, including changing the activities and grading students.
• Student - Students generally have fewer privileges within a course. They can submit assignments for grading, make posts to forums, and generally participate in a course. Students cannot edit any of the course settings and cannot use Moodle's Quickmail feature to send mail to an entire class. Students see their own grades only.
• Librarian - Librarians can assist with course creation including adding, modifying, and deleting resources, activities, and blocks. Librarians can also access assignments for download and grading, but cannot view the full gradebook.
• Assistant: Limited Grade Access - For writing assistants, lab assistants, and teaching assistants who need editing rights as well as access to assignments for download and grading. This role does not allow access to full view of the gradebook.
• Assistant: No Grade Access - For writing assistants, lab assistants, and teaching assistants who need editing rights in a course, but who do not need access to student grades, submitted assignments, or assessments.

Guest Roles

The two types of guest roles can be used in standard Moodle courses as well as in organizational Moodles sites.

• Guest Collaborator - Guest Collaborator is used primarily for non-Lafayette collaborators. They can participate in forum discussions and wikis and respond to feedback, but they cannot view the participant list or user profiles, do not appear in gradebooks, and cannot complete assignments.
• Guest - Guests have minimal privileges. They can view course activities but cannot enter text anywhere. As with all other roles, Guests are required to log in to Moodle before they access a course.

Office and Organization-specific Roles

Office and Organizational Moodle sites have two primary roles: Leader and Member.

• Leader - The Leader role is similar to the Teacher role for courses, but Leaders do not have access to the full list of users (in accordance with the college's FERPA compliance standards). This role should be used for student leaders of organizations and for designated leaders within an office.
• Member - The Member role is similar to the Student role, but Members have access to the Quickmail block if a Leader has added it to the site.

Moodle Roles Matrix