Moodle Permissions

Submitted by margaret.james on Mon, 11/06/2017 - 05:39
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I'm just reviewing the H5P permissions in the moodle plugin, and unsure about the following one:

mod/hvp:installrecommendedh5plibraries

It appears to be allowed for non editing teachers, which strikes me as odd given this role by definition shouldn't be able to make changes to any plugins or activities. Could someone please explain the permission?

 

Thanks

 

Meg

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thomasmars

Tue, 11/07/2017 - 13:09

Hi,
the installrecommendedh5plibraries permission allows users to install recommended h5p libraries, as defined by the H5P hub, this means all h5p libraries that has been reviewed and determined as high enough quality to be recommended.

Thank you for the feedback, looking at the definition of a non-editing teacher from https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/Non-editing_teacher_role it indeed seems like non-editing teachers should not have this permission by default. I have created an issue for revisiting the default permissions, in the public h5p issue tracker: https://h5ptechnology.atlassian.net/browse/HFP-1729.

I would like to emphasize that you can override all the default permissions for your site in the meantime before we resolve this issue. Thanks again for highlighting this.

margaret.james

Tue, 11/07/2017 - 22:16

Hi Thomas

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, my instinct was to disable it for the role, which I will do. Happy to help with feedback on these permissions for your team if required.

Thanks

Meg

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papi Jo

Fri, 03/08/2019 - 19:05

mod/hvp:installrecommendedh5plibraries

I really don't understand the practical use of this permission/capability. On my Moodle test platform I have given this permission to a teacher role and in that teacher role all I can see is a grand total of 6 H5P content types available!

All Content Types (6 results)
Show:    Popular First Newest First AtoZ
Audio Recorder
Branching Scenario (beta)
Course Presentation
Dialog Cards
Drag the Words
Virtual Tour (360)

Only 6 content types are of a "high enough quality to be recommended" out of more than 40 types available? And the list even includes a beta version?! Most strange.