Hi all,
I am looking for a method of stopping student and teacher users from editing their profile information. Any help greatly appreciated, thanks Matt
Have you upgraded to the latest version? you can restrict the altering of things like first name, surname, time-zone and the like.
Yes I am on version 1.5.2. Under which dialogue are these settings?
I missed this the first time, because I clicked on "configuration" from the admin tools on the site screen. If you don't find it right away, try clicking on "users", then "authentication". There seem to be several ways to get to the same place, depending on if you use the breadcrumb trail or try to go in from the administration block on the from page.
Anyway, thanks for the tip. I am going to lock down part of our student profiles also!
atw
Anyway, thanks for the tip. I am going to lock down part of our student profiles also!
atw
Another thing to think about is the pictures: if you import
official pictures from an archive, you don't want them changed
willy nilly by the user. To remove write access to pictures,
go to /yourmoodledata/users
and remove write permissions for the web user. On unix/linux,
the commands would be
chmod 555 /yourmoodledata/users/*
chmod 444 /yourmoodledata/users/*/*
HTH
John
official pictures from an archive, you don't want them changed
willy nilly by the user. To remove write access to pictures,
go to /yourmoodledata/users
and remove write permissions for the web user. On unix/linux,
the commands would be
chmod 555 /yourmoodledata/users/*
chmod 444 /yourmoodledata/users/*/*
HTH
John
Go to http://yourserver/yourmoodle/admin/users.php
Then click on 'authentication'.
You will find a lot of dropdown boxes with 'locked' , 'unlocked' or 'unlocked when empty' as options.
Then click on 'authentication'.
You will find a lot of dropdown boxes with 'locked' , 'unlocked' or 'unlocked when empty' as options.
But you cannot lock fields like AIM screen name and Skype information. I am not sure why.
-- Art
Thanks, all. I have blocked the fields I can block. Though this seems to effect all users. I cannot be broken down between students and teachers.
I have a question regarding updates to moodle.
If we currently have it configured and modified, will upgrading it change everything and every settings?
I am affraid if updating drastic changes would occur. Thanks.
Hi all again. Anyone have any advice on how to just stop students even looking at the edit profile page? Or at least hiding the options on this page using CSS? Moodle really needs more low level administration of the profile editing as its a gold mine for students wishing to mess around.
Thanks for any assistance. Matt.