Can't override or assign role to guest for adding forum topics

Can't override or assign role to guest for adding forum topics

by Rob Byrd -
Number of replies: 2
I have Moodle site administrator privileges and don't ususally allow guests anywhere. But for this one "course" that is only some teachers and some evaluators (we're using the course as a content management system with discussion capability). They also want guest students (not otherwise having accounts on Moodle) to be able to post in a couple forums.

So far I have edited the site role for guest to "Allow" several actions for the forum assignment as pasted below, including "start new discussions. I also edited this role at the course level. I can login as guest using the Auto-login to courses that allow guests" option and enroll in the course using the enrollment key, but when I try to start a topic (using the general forum assignment type) I get:
"Sorry, guests are not allowed to post.

Would you like to log in now with a full user account?"

The single discission format simply gives this info block:
"You are currently using guest access (Login) :"

My version is: Moodle 1.9.2+ (Build: 20080730)

From the course settings page:
-- "course enrollable" = yes
-- guest access = "allow quests who have the key"

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Re: Can't override or assign role to guest for adding forum topics

by Mary Cooch -
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Hi there. Well there is this earlier forum post that might be of use to you, but might it not be simpler just to create a basic guest login -ie, username guest, password guest, and make it very restrictive, rather than fiddling around altering permissions?
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Re: Can't override or assign role to guest for adding forum topics

by Rob Byrd -
Thank for the link to the previous discussion (I'm embarrassed that I didn't find that before starting a new post, sorry :-|)

I did try just creating a guest user called guest, etc, but got a resonse user already exists. And I wanted the guest users not to have to login, but use the true (simplified) enrolment mechanism to get into the course.

I considered creating a new role that mostly inherited from student (which sounds like the main idea of the earlier discussion.

I was/am hoping for someone to tell me about another variable somewhere that I haven't seen that I can click on to make my guest role changes active, and do what they say the guest role elements indicate.

Thank you,

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