As I was writing my reply to Matt's post it got me thinking about another recent discussion, which seems to be a kind of a boomerang question here. Every now and then somebody wants to open quizzes to guests, others might want to open forums to guests, etc.
This is just an idea for brainstorming (or a candidate for dying off, if there's no interest in this): why not extend the choice of guest access options and have the following three settings in a course:
- do not allow guests
- allow non-participating guests (the way it is now)
- allow participating guests (guests can post to a forum, take quizes, submit assignments, etc.) - this would be an answer to one of the FAQs in these forums (how to allow guests to take quizzes)
In the last case, all posts/quizzes/assignments/choices/etc. would be labelled as "Guest User"
What do you think about it?