how assign roles in the Moodle

Question

I installed moodle and want to assign roles. in Site administration/Users/Permissions/Define roles I have 8 roles. But in administration/Users/Permissions/Assign system roles I have only 2 roles to assign. How can I assign a user the role not exists in these two?

Answer 1

When you define a role, you can specify which contexts the roles can be assigned in - it is a list of checkboxes near the top of the form you get when you click on 'Edit' for a role.

Most roles (teacher, student, etc.) are designed to be assigned at the 'course' level, so go to a course, click on 'Users > Show enroled users' and then enrol users there with specific roles.

Answer 2

It depends on the context. If its a system context, then they will be available in the system roles section

If its a user context then you need to go to the individual user

site admin -> users -> browse list of users -> click on a users name

this will give you the users profile

Then go to

profile settings for "users name" -> roles > assign roles relative to this user

It's a bit of a long way round but that's how it works.

http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/Parent_role