Type of user in Moodle
Currently Moodle has only three types of user:
- Administrator. Has all-powerful access to everything
- Teacher. Can only do things within their own course
- Student. No ability to upload material independent of an Activity. So group work is impossible.
There is a ‘teaching assistant’ but this is not a real user type.
This brings up the more general issue of teacher access to each other’s courses. What Moodle needs is a finer grained ‘permissions’ model. For example:
- Secretaries need permission to upload files but nothing else.
- Other teachers could be allowed read access without having to log in as guest.
- Teaching Assistants need fine grained permission to create and grade certain assignments (eg discussion Forums).
- And perhaps the option for a ‘Reference Shelf’ where Reference Librarians could deposit useful resources and provide a focus for bibliographic assistance.
Posted by markp at March 13, 2006 11:20 AM