assigning roles to users on Moodle

On one of our Moodle installations, there was a request to change permissions of a couple of users - to assign the "manager of course category" status of one user to another. Though Moodle has an easy way to make a user a manager of the entire site, Site Administration -> Users -> Assign system roles - this particular permission assignment was a bit more tricky to navigate. One solution turned out to be:

1. Navigate to a course for which this user has manager status as an Admin or Manager
2. Choose Course "Actions Menu" (Gear icon on right corner with the Moove theme)
3. Choose "More" -> Users tab -> "Check permissions"
4. Filter for the user whose permissions you want to change, click to select and click "Show this user's permissions"
5. In this case, it showed, among other things, Manager in Category:TheRelevantCourseCategory
6. Clicking on Category:TheRelevantCourseCategory, then again the "Actions Menu" (Gear icon on right corner with the Moove theme), Assign Roles
7. That gives us a clickable table to assign roles (like Manager) in that particular category.