Greetings - In working a faculty member, he wishes to lock the index so the students cannot edit or change the name of a page. I did some searching and I found a setting in Moodle 1.9 for a Wiki page allowing for the page to be set to Read Only. In 1.9 there are about 4-5 of these flags that can be set for the page - but I cannot find the flags or the Read Only setting in the Wiki in Moodle 2.3. Help! As always thank you for your time and expertise.
Nancy K.
Hi Nancy,
Interesting question! From just searching the wiki code for 'readonly' I would guess that feature is no longer implemented - likely to do with the ethos of collaborative learning implicit in a wiki. Of course sometimes teachers would feel uncomfortable with the idea that students can cheerfully edit their carefully set up introductory page, thus throwing the gates wide open!
There still exists a 'readonly' field in the wiki_pages table in the database, so a very rudimentary lockout could be used, without necessarily having a settings page - but it does mean an Administrator would have to access the database to set the readonly field for precisely the right page to 1 (so it won't be all that convenient, but at least you will have the correct pageid in the address bar), and you need a small code fix...
In mod/wiki/edit.php around line 80 straight after:
$context = get_context_instance(CONTEXT_MODULE, $cm->id);
require_capability('mod/wiki:editpage', $context);
add...
if (!has_capability('mod/wiki:overridelock', $context)) {
if ($page->readonly == 1) {
print_error('readonlypage', 'wiki', $CFG->wwwroot . '/mod/wiki/view.php?pageid=' . $pageid);
}
}
You also have to add one extra line to your language file, e.g. mod/wiki/lang/en/wiki.php...
$string['readonlypage'] = 'This page cannot be edited';
The edits will block any ordinary 'editor' from changing the locked page, but still allow the teacher & admin to do so, assuming that the teacher has 'mod/wiki:overridelock' rights.
All the usual warnings apply... keep a backup copy of the file you're editing, use a text editor not a word processor to do the edit, backup your database.
Regards, John