Martin Dougiamas

There are problems with that, because the teacher at the course level may not have the rights to assign all roles at the course level. They may see it but not have the power to change it.

I think it will take a lot more thinking to grow the interface to make it:

- show MORE information as you suggest
- keep it clear and simple to understand

This is exactly the kind of feedback and discussion the student doing this Google SOC project will need:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects#Roles_interface_improvements

No, you're absolutely right in your understanding.

The trick here is that there is an exception. There is a special capability called "doanything" which overrides anything else. This is most useful to admins in that no matter what modules they add/remove etc they will always have access to them.

Now, anyone who has the special "doanything" capability at site level (ie absolutely full admins) are NOT listed in lower contexts. This is because almost no-one really expects the admin to be listed as a apparent participant in everything (all previous versions of Moodle also worked this way).

If you DO want such people to be included then you can create a new role, say "Secondary admin" which has everything enabled EXCEPT this special "doanything" capability. People with that role at site level WILL show up in course participant lists, as you expected.

There is a password in the settings for each quiz, you could use that too.

If someone wanted to cheat though, wouldn't they just forward ANY password on to their expert?

As I always say, the best way to assess distance students is via extended and rich engagement over time, and a variety of assessment methods (such as the ones in Moodle) instead of relying on just quizzes.

Please stop using Moodle.org to conduct your class 4b ... it's not the correct place to do it.

This site (http://moodle.org) is for discussing Moodle only! If you want to use Moodle for your own online classes you need to set up your own site. (The software is available from http://download.moodle.org and you can ask for help about setting it up if you need that).

Wow, ok, something is not working there in detecting the MySQL version.

A workaround is to just create your config.php manually by copying config-dist.php (in the root of Moodle files) to config.php and hand-editing the values in there.