I have a user profile custom field set up which I need teachers to be able to update periodically. As admin, I have gone to:
System admin > Users > Permissions > Define roles
There I have changed the following for the 'Teacher role':
Edit user profile (moodle/user:editprofile) = Allow
Update user profiles (moodle/user:update) = Allow
For some reason this isn't working. Teachers still don't have the ability to access the user profiles. Please help!
Moodle version: 3.3.1
This is not working because when a Teacher goes to a user profile they are not longer a Teacher. They are only Teachers and only have those permissions in the context of a course where they are enrolled and not on a user profile page.
So, your settings look good but they don't apply because the teacher doesn't have that role anymore.
I think what you need to do is create a site wide role to allow just this ability to it, and put your teachers in that. Take a look at some of the permissions the Manager role has, since it can do this.