[LON-CAPA-users] Changing course coordinator status to a user for a large number of courses

[Raeburn, Stuart]

Hello Amos,

>
> Is there a fast way to select all the desired courses from a list, and then choose the status?
>

The Domain Coordinator's User Management interface does not currently support assignment of a Course Coordinator role in multiple courses all at once (you have to select them one at a time).  

However, in LON-CAPA 2.11.2, as Domain Coordinator, you could:

1. Assign a Domain Helpdesk role to this instructor, via "Create users or modify the roles and privileges of users".

2. Use: "Set domain configuration" > Display ("Support Settings" checked) to define an "ad hoc" helpdesk course role which could receive all privileges usually assigned to a Course Coordinator. When defining that ad hoc role, you can restrict its availability to specific user(s) with a Domain Helpdesk role.

3, After  steps 1 and 2 (above) have been completed, when the instructor next logs in to LON-CAPA the roles screen will contain a "Domain Helpdesk" row featuring a link: "Ad hoc course/community roles in domain -- Select Course/Community".  When the instructor clicks that link it will pop open a window, in which the user can search/select the course in which to acquire a temporary "ad hoc" role.  (This is similar to the ad hoc Course Coordinator role link, available to a Domain Coordinator from the roles screen).

If you were to adopt the approach in 1 and 2 then the specific user would be able to acquire a Course Coordinator role in *any* course in your domain, unless the course owner had explicitly denied it (in each course) via: People > Users >  Helpdesk Access > Role usage (set in a course).

Whether that is more time consuming than assigning a Course Coordinator role one course at a time depends on how many courses there are in your domain for which this user should have CC-like access, and how many there are for which this user should *not* have CC-like access.


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

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From: LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> on behalf of Amos Lee <lee at math.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 8:07 PM
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Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Changing course coordinator status to a user for a large number of courses

Hello LonCapa,

We would like to give an instructor "course coordinator" access status to
several dozen of courses on our Lon Capa Server.  As the Domain
Coordinator, I know how to add such a status to that user by selecting one
course at a time.  But for several dozen courses, it is quite repetitive
and time consuming.  Is there a fast way to select all the desired courses
from a list, and then choose the status?

Thanks,

Amos Lee
math and stats
univ of sask

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