Do I have to locally assign the student role to each student in every course I put the feedback block? I need a site-wide feedback activity that every student, no matter what course(s) he or she has, to be able to complete one time.
I potentially have hundreds or perhaps even thousands of students who I will want to be able to complete this feedback when they first hit my Moodle site.
Is this possible?
Mary Haley
There are probably a few ways to do it. One that I know is to put it on the Front page, then hide it. Then you can put links to it from wherever you want.
You could set it to anonymous and give guest permissions (for answering only) if you want to allow vistors to fill it in without being logged in.
If it's for enrolled students, you could create a "Members Area" for which would in fact be a course masquerading as a lobby. All students, regardless of what courses they are doing, would be enrolled here. You could add a feedback module here.
Hope this helps.
I forgot to mention that I created the feedback on the front page. The link to complete it is not there for students when they click on the feedback, nor is it there for them when they click on the feedback in the feedback block inside a course.
With the designated feedback activity on your front page you could simply add a static link in the custom menu (if you use it) or the footer (see Site administration► Appearance► Additional HTML) and this link will appear on every page and allow access to the feedback activity from everywhere on the site.
My problem is that, even on the front page, when I log in as a student, I can't complete the Feedback. It appears that wherever the feedback is, I have to assign a role.
Thank you for your help. Any ideas?
I no longer use the Feedback module for this purpose (I use the Dataform instead) so I can offer only guesses.
What's your front page default role? By default it should be authenticated user on front page. Now check permissions for your Feedback activity. It should allow view and write permissions for role authenticated users on front page or whatever role that is your front page role (except for guest, if that's your frontpage role, because guests are unconditionally denied write permission).
See if any of that works for you.
Thank you, Itamar. I changed my default front page role to student and then checked to ensure that the feedback activity on the front page permitted students to view and complete the feedback.
I am getting the same error message I got before when I try to access the feedback activity as a student: Invalid course module ID.
Any ideas?
Mary
