[LON-CAPA-users] guest accounts advice

[Felicia Berryman]

Hi Ray,

>                 Yes, cc role probably. But I was thinking about maybe a custom 
> role, because I don't really want such people to be able to create (enroll) 
> new users in the domain.  If you have any suggestions about how best to set 
> up such a role, let me know.  The important thing is to enable the new user 
> to readily see the power of the system without allowing them to mess it up.

Currently, your only option is to have a test machine that really isn't 
networked which has a copy of the entire res space from your server.  I 
played around with the custom role and there isn't a way to allow 
someone to just browse the entire resource space.  In the past, I have 
created new courses and course coordinators on our server for training. 
  However, I do always check that the person is a legitmate instructor 
here at MSU.

> The flip side would be to allow authoring but only private publication.  I 
> don't know if that is possible.  

Not now, feel free to make a bug report.  Feel free to vote or comment 
on http://bugs.lon-capa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2011 which is somewhat related.

> It seems to me that the ability to create 
> resources is as strong a selling point (stronger from my point of view) than 
> the ability to import.

If the person you are trying to "sell" to is an instructor at SFU, I 
don't see anything wrong given that person an author account.  I would 
tell them to create a subdirector called Workspace and then do all their 
playing around in there. You can continue your Workspace demo by having 
the new author edit the Directory Catalog Information for Workspace and 
show them how to publish as private for example.

Felicia


> 
> Cheers,
> Ray
> 
> On February 17, 2004 12:55 pm, Felicia Berryman wrote:
> 
>>Hi Ray,
>>
>>I think a course coordinator role is the best - no accidental 
>>publications as an author and the ability to play around with DOCS and 
>>import questions from resource space into a real class.
>>
>>Ray Batchelor wrote:
>>
>>>What is the best way to give guest faculty access to res space for 
> 
> browsing?
> 
>>>Should I make them an author, or create for them a course for which they 
> 
> can 
> 
>>>be course coord, both, or something else?  Possibly one should have a 
> 
> guest 
> 
>>>user to whom various persons can be made co-authors?
>>
>>I think a course coordinator role is the best - no accidental 
>>publications as an author and the ability to play around with DOCS and 
>>import questions from resource space into a real class.
>>
>>Felicia
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>>Michigan State University
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Felicia Berryman
LON-CAPA Support Coordinator
Michigan State University
Phone:  (517)432-9866
Technical Support Available at:
    http://www.loncapa.msu.edu - MSU Users
    http://www.help.lon-capa.org - General