[LON-CAPA-users] custom role privs

[Ray Batchelor]

Thanks Stuart.

I was beginning to suspect this.  No worries!
I wanted to give a TA the ability to view instructorcomments.
I will now just make them an Instructor.

Cheers,
Ray

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Stuart Raeburn <raeburn@msu.edu> wrote:
> Ray,
>
> Unfortunately LON-CAPA does not currently allow you to grant privileges to a
> custom role to view "<instructorcomment>this</instructorcomment>".
>
> The display of instructor comments is presently based on the user's current
> role, instead of on a user's privileges.  Any "instructorcomment" in a
> problem is displayed to a user with one of the following roles as his/her
> current role:
>
> Course Coordinator, Instructor, Author, Co-author, or Librarian
>
> To convert this to privilege-based access (more in keeping with LON-CAPA's
> philosophy) would entail modifying LON-CAPA to either check against one or
> more existing privileges assignable to custom roles or, alternatively,
> against a newly defined privilege which could be assigned to custom roles.
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> MSU LON-CAPA group
>
>> Which of the custom roles privileges options grants the role the
>> ability to view <instructorcomment>this</instructorcomment>?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ray
>
>
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Raymond J. Batchelor, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Simon Fraser University
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