user policies: treat guests as students

user policies: treat guests as students

by Ulrike Albers -
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Hallo everybody,

I was looking for a way to allow guests to post (if possible, in one special course only)

When I tried to override permissions, it didn't work and I was told guests can never post.

Now I see that I could change the default role of non-connected users: if I change it to "student" or a new role with permission to post, do you think it is dangerous ?

Would anybody know another way to let non connected users post just in one particular course ?

Thank you for your help !

Ulrike

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Re: user policies: treat guests as students

by Mary Cooch (personal account) -
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Hi Ulrike. I posted this in the other forum where you had asked a similar question: I know you've been trying to do this for a while but I forgot the main reason why it is so important that they post in a forum. Is it essential that everyone can see what the guests have posted?If you just want guest feedback why not install the feedback module which guests can post to or else make a link to a form in google docs that anyone can fill in?
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Re: user policies: treat guests as students

by Ulrike Albers -

Thank you Mary fot that idea, it could be a solution.

But I think it's a little "amateur" to use Google Docs when you just want to communicate with guests (potential clients), especially if you consider that Moodle is probably the best elearning software smile

Ulrike

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Re: user policies: treat guests as students

by Helen Foster -
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Hi Ulrike,

If you want guests to be able to post in a forum, you can create a visitor account, say with username = password = visitor, for everyone to share. (Info copied from Guest role documentation.)
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Re: user policies: treat guests as students

by Ulrike Albers -

Hi,

Thanks a lot, I'm going to check that out !!!

Ulrike

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Re: user policies: treat guests as students

by Ulrike Albers -

Hallo,

I think I'm going to do that; now I have to find out where I can dispaly the information for my visitors.

The pages which are shown when guests try to post in forum  (sorry, guests are not allowed to post/reply to posts...do you want to log with a user account) could be a good place - does anybody now where I can change the text of these pages  ?

Thank you !!

Ulrike

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Re: user policies: treat guests as students

by Mary Cooch (personal account) -
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Hi Ulrike. If you go to site admin>language>language editing>edit words and phrases> and choose forum.php you can alter the wording you want.
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Re: user policies: treat guests as students

by E. L. Cooper -
I don't know how much information you want from guests but the most recent questionnaire can be made to work for guest.
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Re: user policies: treat guests as students

by Ulrike Albers -

Thanks a lot Mary, I had not understood the language editing (even if I had already used it :D)...this is GREAT - very useful for any kind of things !!!

Ulrike

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