How can I make instances of the HTML block visible only to certain roles?
I plan to have a number of different HTML blocks in various locations -- front page, dashboard, course, etc. Some of them need to be visible only to managers, others to teachers, yet others to students or guests. What is the procedure to achieve that result?
Hello,
Please see the documentation Blocks FAQ for details of how to make a front page block or a block in a course visible to teachers but not students.
Hello Hellen,
and thank you for your reply. I had read the documentation in the Blocks FAQ, specifically the section How do I make a front page block visible to teachers but not students, but it did not answer my question on how to make blocks visible to certain roles, instead it only offered a way to manually select users with a role and show the block to them.
8. Click the blue words of "authenticated user on the front page" to access
the screen where you can choose who you want to allow to see this block
(such as your teachers) by moving them from the right hand box to the
left
The problem I see with the above approach is that users with a certain role are not a fixed set, hence, with every addition of a new teacher, managers will have to remember to drill down through all the numerous steps described in the FAQ for every block to add this new user to the people that can see this block. I believe this to be a very poor practice, because it would be extremely error-prone and inefficient.
Rather, I am looking for a way to assign blocks' visibility to the role itself, so that anyone who gets the role of e.g. a teacher could automatically see all the blocks meant for teachers, without any further steps.
Kindly advise on how this can be done.
As mentioned in the FAQ 'How do I make a block in my course visible to teachers but not students?', another method is to edit the permissions and remove Authenticated user, Guest, and Student as roles with the moodle/block:view permission. You would then need to ensure that all teachers are assigned the role of non-editing teacher on the front page.
The solution is not so easy because normally teachers are assigned the role of teacher at course level. Thus, for anything outside of the course, such as the front page or dashboard, to give users additional permissions, you need to assign them a role in the front page or a system role.
