Hi all...
Two problems:
Cheers, Sam Thing.
Hi Sam. "There's no documentation on the Learning Support System role!!!!" I think that is because this is a custom role made by your establishment and not a standard role.
If you could explain a bit more what it did, or who used it, we can help you troubleshoot this.
Hi Mary,
It's a system role introduced in 2.x (I think It turned up when we went from 1.9 to 2.2 but I'm not sure) that allows people assigned to it access to any course without needing to be enrolled but gives little, if any, permissions to edit.
It definately isn't a custom role - see screen shot. Also I'm the only admin here who handles this area of Moodle. This role appeared in a 2.x upgrade and I remember looking forward to it because it solved a problem one of my teachers had at the time.
I've just checked on my test server and that role is not listed under Assign roles in System. I can only assume from that, that it was a feature that was introduced and quickly removed. I wonder why we still have it.
As it's no longer supported and the incremental upgrade we've done recently has broken the way the permissions work on it, I guess my only real option is to make a custom role that fulfills the same criteria.
Cheers, Sam.
Hi Sam Honestly - it really IS a custom role
There never was a standard "Learning Support " role. If you want a role that allows people to view courses without being enrolled on them then I suggest you create a new role, assign it to the system context and give it this capability http://docs.moodle.org/en/Capabilities/moodle/course:view
Custom or not, the specific problem is that people with this role have lost the ability to edit course summaries when assigned in a teacher role at course level, when just over a week ago they had this ability. This is a system role with course:view set to allow.
I've made a new role and allowed course:view and the summary edit problem has gone away for it but it's a concern that this happened at all.
Cheers, Sam.
Hi Sam,
I'm about to go down this path for Learning Support too, so have been looking at the system roles for something similar.
Basically, I need to give our Learning Support team the ability to browse courses but not participate in them as teachers/students.
Were there any key role / permissions you used for creating this Learning Support role?
Any tips appreciated,
regards,
Sam
Hi Sam,
The only thing I did was to create a system role and explicitly allow course:view. I left all other permissions alone. If any of the learning support team needed further permissions then I've asigned them a role on a per course basis.
Cheers. Sam.
