Roles and permissions

Hi David. If you are a course creator within a category (maybe your categories are faculties/departments like ours -French for example) then you should only be able to create courses in that category. If you have course creator role assigned system wide (via the front page site admin>users>permissions>assign system roles)then I believe this makes you able to create courses in any category throughout the Moodle. It is always better to restrict roles to one department/category/course rather than have them system wide - just as in a school you wouldn't have a maths teacher ordinarily able to set up classes in geography/history whatever, so you shouldn't really on Moodle. As for teachers then - assigning them the role of teacher system wide (via assign system roles) makes them able to teach - edit -and get the grades of students in all courses all over the Moodle. They should only be given teacher role in the courses in which they teach. Or - in the category they teach in , like say, English . It's the same with students and is a common errror made when setting up Moodle. Students should be put into the courses they study and not assigned system wide or every course will have every student and cause mayhem -as it would if they all turned up to one class in the real world! I think what confuses people is that in real life we are teachers or students - but in Moodle, when we log in, we are just "users" who could be made teachers in one course and students in another. If you as a teacher wish to have a look around a course of someone in another faculty you would be a student in there. Likewise if you wanted to give your class editing rights on a Moodle page to run a school club for example, they would be given the teacher role in Moodle even though they are "students" in the real world.