Modifying Site Administrators in the User Permissions Section of Moodle

You may need to add many teachers or administrators as Site Administrators in order to grant them editing privileges when managing a Moodle site. This hardly ever occurs. It is possible to grant additional admin roles to current users by adding Moodle Admin permissions. We will learn about the Administrator user role and permission in this lesson.

Steps to Add and Change Admin User Roles and Permissions

Login to your Moodle dashboard.

In the left-hand side, go to Settings -> Site administration -> Users -> Permissions -> Site administrators.

Note: Remember to keep Blocks editing on in the top left-side of the Site administration for editing any of these options.

The Manage site administrators page will get displayed. For creating extra administrators for your Moodle site, select the user that will become an administrator and click on Add.

A window with a message “Do you really want to add user . . .” will appear. Click on Continue.

You will see this user with the label Existing Users in the Current Site Administrators.

For modifying the Main Administrator to a New Administrator, select the Existing User in the list and click on Set Main User.

Now, the user will be set as the Main Administrator and the previous one will be set to Existing User.

Thus, you have learned to modify site administrators in the user permissions section of Moodle.