Roles and permissions

There's a roledebugscript for 1.9 at http://docs.moodle.org/en/The_rolesdebug.php_roles_debugging_script

Thanks to Zbysiu Rodak's link, I played around with parent role and mentee block yesterday afternoon. The experience in 1.9.1 is quite different from our experience in May 2007 (on either 1.8.2 or 1.7+, not sure which).

In 1.9.1,

• Parents see the course list on the front page but cannot get in through those links.
• Parents see the mentee block, but the mentee block is unseen to students & teachers
• Parents can only get in to see the child's activities by clicking on the name in the mentee block
• Parents can see that posts have been made to forums in activities>outline report, but they cannot view the activity (i.e. the forum or their child's posts)
• Parents can see that files have been uploaded to assignment activities, but they cannot view the activity
• Parents can see the gradebook, but they cannot view the activity's description. They *can* see the grade and the feedback.
• The default phrase for "Parent, you can't view that" is "This course is not enrollable at the moment."

In 1.8.2 (but it may have been 1.7) in May, 2007, I made these notes:

• It seems to be a gentleman's agreement not to use activity report to get into the classroom and view anything you want instead of following the link to the student's profile.
• The site front page doesn't prohibit a parent from going in through the course listing (this may be fixable with front page roles)
• The forum posts tab for parent shows nothing has been posted altho the student view shows what the student has posted. I think this is a 1.8 bug but can't confirm yet.
• It was entirely possible to get into any classroom, any activity, see any part of a classroom
  

In May, 2007, we didn't understand roles and permissions very well. I think our test cases may have been global/site wide roles, and that may be why parents could go in through the course listing.