15/8/23, 16:07 Moodle Role Management: Check your understanding: Attempt review

Started on Tuesday, 15 August 2023, 6:59 PM

State Finished
Completed on Tuesday, 15 August 2023, 7:06 PM
Time taken 7 mins 9 secs
Marks 7.00/10.00
Grade 70.00 out of 100.00
Feedback You haven’t reached the required score for this quiz, but you may attempt it again!

Question 1 As admin of a large Moodle site, you have a very heavy workload and would like to
Correct give your colleague Jordan a 'lesser admin role' in order to help you with some tasks
Mark 1.00 out of but without the total power of a full administrator. What is the most sensible way to
1.00 do this?

As long as you are the "main administrator", you can safely add Jordan as
another, secondary administration. Any damage Jordan might do, you can easily
rectify.
Assign Jordan the role of Manager in the System 
Create a custom role, based on the Administrator role, and assign it to Jordan in
the System context.
Edit the Administrator role to remove the capabilities you don't want Jordan to
have, and then assign the role in the System context.

https://moodle.academy/mod/quiz/review.php?attempt=79377&cmid=1887 1/8
15/8/23, 16:07 Moodle Role Management: Check your understanding: Attempt review

Question 2 Adil has been employed to mentor a group of 15 students who are falling behind in
Correct their studies. Adil cannot be enrolled in their courses because of privacy reasons
Mark 1.00 out of regarding interacting with the other students on the course, but does need access to
1.00 their grades. You decide to give Adil the Parent/Mentor role. What is the most
efficient way of linking Adil to the 15 students who will be mentored?

Go into each of the 15 students and from their Profile > Preferences > Click
Assign roles relative to this user.
Add Adil as non-editing teacher to all of the students' courses. This will allow Adil
to see but not edit their grades.
Create a course with self-enrolment disabled. Manually add Adil as teacher along
with the students.
Create a cohort with the 15 students and then link them to Adil from Site 
administration > Users >Assign user roles to cohort.

Question 3 Your Leadership team has finally agreed for you to be able to job-share with your
Correct trusted colleague of many years. Until now you have been the sole admin of the site.
Mark 1.00 out of Now you can add another administrator. How do you do this?
1.00

Site administration > Users > Permissions > Assign system roles > Administrator
Think again! Too many site administrators is very risky.
Site administration > Users > Permissions >Site administrators. 
Site administration > Users > Permissions >Assign system roles >Manager

https://moodle.academy/mod/quiz/review.php?attempt=79377&cmid=1887 2/8
15/8/23, 16:07 Moodle Role Management: Check your understanding: Attempt review

Question 4 You have created a new system role which will apply to fifty (existing) users on the
Correct site. How do you assign them this role? Select all that apply.
Mark 1.00 out of
1.00
Site administration > Users > Permissions > Assign system roles. 
Create a cohort with the fifty users and assign them to the system role.
From Site administration > Users > Upload users, upload a text file with the field
'role1' and the name of your custom system role.
From Site administration > Users > Upload users, upload a text file with the 
field 'sysrole1' and the name of your custom system role.

Question 5 Which of these is the correct hierarchy of contexts? The highest is on the left and the
Correct lowest is on the right.
Mark 1.00 out of
1.00
(Highest) System, Course, Category, User (Lowest)
(Highest) System, User, Course, Category (Lowest)
(Highest) System, Category, Course, User (Lowest)
(Highest) System, User, Category, Course (Lowest) 

https://moodle.academy/mod/quiz/review.php?attempt=79377&cmid=1887 3/8
15/8/23, 16:07 Moodle Role Management: Check your understanding: Attempt review

Question 6 In Olli's small college Moodle site, teachers share courses and work collaboratively.
Correct However, when a new course is created and a teacher assigned to the course, that
Mark 1.00 out of teacher is unable to assign other teaching colleagues. As administrator, Olli has to go
1.00 into the course and do it for them. What might Olli consider to lighten the
administrative burden?

Olli could allow the Teacher role to assign other teachers from Site 
Administration > Permissions > Users > Define roles > Allow role
assignments.
Olli could use a CSV file to upload teachers into the relevant courses.
Olli could tell the teachers to enable self-enrolment into the course with the
Teacher role and tell the teachers to click to self enrol.
Olli could give the teachers Manager roles instead, which will allow them to
assign teachers into courses.

https://moodle.academy/mod/quiz/review.php?attempt=79377&cmid=1887 4/8
15/8/23, 16:07 Moodle Role Management: Check your understanding: Attempt review

Question 7 Jan is a member of the teaching staff who recently discovered that one student was
Incorrect posting abusive messages in Jan's course forum. Jan wants to suspend the student
Mark 0.00 out of from posting in the forum for one week, as a punishment. What do you advise?
1.00

You create a new role 'Cannot post in forums' in the course and activity context
and explain to Jan how to locally assign the role for one week to the student in
the forum.
You explain to Jan how to edit the student's profile to check the "Suspend" box
for one week.
You will create a new role in the system context 'Cannot post in forums' and
assign it to Jan's student from Assign system roles.
You explain to Jan how to create a new role in the course context 'Cannot 
post in forums; and assign it to the student.

https://moodle.academy/mod/quiz/review.php?attempt=79377&cmid=1887 5/8
15/8/23, 16:07 Moodle Role Management: Check your understanding: Attempt review

Question 8 You are the Moodle administrator of a school where the pupils are aged between 11
Incorrect and 14. They are at a challenging age where many of them are adding silly or
Mark 0.00 out of inappropriate content to their Moodle profiles, the Leadership team asks you to
1.00 prevent the pupils from editing their profiles. How do you do this?

From Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles, edit the 
Student role to change moodle/user:editownprofile to Prevent.
Create a new custom role with moodle/user:editownprofile set to Prevent, and
assign it in the system context to all the pupils.
Create a new custom role with moodle/user:editownprofile set to Prevent, and
assign it in the courses where the pupils are learning.
From Site administration > Users > Permissions >Define roles, edit the
Authenticated user role to change moodle/user:editownprofile to Not set.

https://moodle.academy/mod/quiz/review.php?attempt=79377&cmid=1887 6/8
15/8/23, 16:07 Moodle Role Management: Check your understanding: Attempt review

Question 9 Zain is an enthusiastic member of the teaching staff who wants to empower students
Incorrect by allowing them to import html files as chapters of Moodle Books. However, from
Mark 0.00 out of Book navigation >More > Permissions > Advanced role override > Student, Zain is
1.00 unable to set the capability /booktool/importhtml:import to Allow and comes to you
for advice. Can you explain this?

Zain should first set the capability to Allow for authenticated users from Book
navigation > More > Permissions > Advanced role override > Authenticated
user.
Zain is not allowed by default to override the Student role. 
The capability to import chapters into Books has security risks with it and should
not be given to the Student role.
Zain should instead give students the Non-editing teacher role in the Book from
Book navigation > More > Permissions > Locally assigned roles.

Question 10 Skye is a non-teaching colleague who needs access to a course to support learners by
Correct being able to view and grade their assignments, post in and moderate forums but not
Mark 1.00 out of actually add or delete course materials. What role could you give this colleague?
1.00

Create a custom role of Grade viewer, allocated site wide.

Create a custom role by modifying the Editing teacher role to prevent adding or
deleting materials, and assign it to your colleague in the System context.
Use the Parent (Mentor) role.
Assign Skye the role of Non-editing teacher in the course. 

https://moodle.academy/mod/quiz/review.php?attempt=79377&cmid=1887 7/8
15/8/23, 16:07 Moodle Role Management: Check your understanding: Attempt review

https://moodle.academy/mod/quiz/review.php?attempt=79377&cmid=1887 8/8