In the articles Profiles Overview and Site Profiles, you learnt about the authorisations for functions at site level. This article focuses on the settings for the course profiles. You can find these under Administration > Profiles on the second tab Course.
The course profiles describe which authorisations the users have based on an assigned role in a course. The role can vary from course to course, as the course management can sometimes adjust the course role.
They are explained in the table below. The green check mark indicates that the functionality is enabled for the profile, while the red x indicates the functionality is disabled for the profile.
Questions to consider:
- What profiles will you have within your site? Default profiles include system administrator, administrator, staff, student, guest, and AICC.
- Looking at the following functionalities, which do you want to apply to each profile? For example, you might not want teachers to be able to make courses if you are creating template courses to distribute from the district level.
| Permissions | |
| Security level | Indicates the security level of the profile. Advanced profiles have the highest security level. Note: The security level must be unique. |
| Manage participants and groups | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to add, edit, and delete participants and organisation groups in a course. This setting also controls management of Course groups. |
| Manage participants and groups when course is synchronized. | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to add, edit, and delete participants and organisation groups in a course when the course is added by means of a synchronization (import). |
| Import group structures when adding organisation groups to courses | Indicates that the user can add groups to a course that contain subgroups (for example, year groups for all classes). Note: Please note that the entire school can also be added as a group. This function is therefore only set as the default setting for administrators and must be enabled for teachers if required. |
| Manage terms when course is synchronized. | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to add, edit, and delete terms in a course when the course is added by means of a synchronization (import). |
| Use trash can | Indicates whether the trash can is available for users with this profile. |
| Manage events in course calendar | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to add, edit, and delete calendar events in the course calendar. |
| View as other profile | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to view the course as an other profile. This other profile always has lower rights. |
| Manage general administration permissions (for example: bulletins, course settings, and access to reports). | Indicates whether this profile has access to general administrator rights. This implies administration of bulletin board, course settings, access to reports, and so on. |
| Manage assessment record | Indicates whether this profile can manage the settings in the assessment record. |
| Manage course functions | Indicates whether this profile can manage the settings in the course functions in the course settings. |
| Edit course title | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to edit the course title (official course name). |
| Edit course title in synchronized courses | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to edit the course title when the course is added by means of a synchronization (import). |
| Edit course description | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to edit the course description. |
| Edit course colour | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to edit the course colour. |
| Edit friendly name | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to edit the course friendly name (a short, descriptive name to make it easy to find for all participants in lists and overviews). |
| Edit class hours | Allowed to change the total number of class hours needed to complete (manually created) courses. Note: The setting does not affect the class hours in plans. |
| Edit class hours in synchronized courses | Allowed to change the total number of class hours needed to complete (synchronized) course. Note: The setting does not affect the class hours in plans. |
| Edit course code | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to edit the course code in a course. |
| Edit course code in synchronized courses | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to edit the course code in a course when the course is added by means of a synchronization (import). |
| Delete course | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to delete courses. |
| Archive course | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to archive courses. |
| Include profile in student reports (progress report, personal report, etc.) | Indicates whether this profile is to be used when reports are created, whether they are to be shown in the status pages, etc. |
| Course role | Indicates the role of this profile in a course. |
| Default profiles | |
| Use this course profile for administrators in hierarchy (when synchronizing with hierarchy) | When an organisation group is added, the users that are administrators in the hierarchy are given this profile. |
| Use this course profile for teachers in hierarchy (when synchronizing with hierarchy) | When an organisation group is added, the users that are teachers in the hierarchy are given this profile. |
| Use this course profile for students in hierarchy (when synchronizing with hierarchy) | When an organisation group is added, the users that are students in the hierarchy are given this profile. |
| Use this course profile for guests in hierarchy (when synchronizing with hierarchy) | When an organisation group is added, the users that are guests in the hierarchy are given this profile. |
| Use this profile for default membership | New users get this profile by default. |
| Use this profile for users creating a course | Users creating a course get this profile by default. |
| Default permissions in root folder (used when new courses are created) | |
| Full control | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted full control permissions in the course folder when a course is created. Full control gives the user permission to manage the folder permissions, along with those permissions listed below. |
| Edit | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted edit permissions in the course folder when a course is created. Edit gives the user permission to edit the folder. |
| Write | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted write permissions in the course folder when a course is created. Write gives the user permission to add elements to the folder, copy elements to and from the folder, and change the element sequence within the folder. |
| Evaluate | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted evaluate permissions in the course folder when a course is created. Evaluate permissions are not used by the folder directly. Elements added to this folder will inherit this permission. |
| Participate | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted participate permissions in the course folder when a course is created. Participate permissions are not used by the folder directly. Elements added to this folder will inherit this permission. |
| Read | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted read permissions in the course folder when a course is created. Read gives the user permission to see the folder contents. |