Guest access

Guest access

από Heather P -
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Hello

On a Moodle 2.4.3 on a Windows server. I've set up Windows authentication to enable single sign on.

If I put a course up is it still possible to get in on guest access to it.

I'm asking because we have a block that checks whether a teacher is assigned - it was designed to send a form through to the teacher on the course but we edited permissions to make it go to a specific role. I can at present only make it work on a course page. I wanted to put it on the home page but it won't find a teacher on the home page no matter what I do to it.

It is important that the students don't have to log in to get to this form, hence the question about guest access even though I have windows authentication turned on for the site.

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Re: Guest access

από Ken Task -
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While it's true one could set the front page role for 'guest', please consider the 'dark side' of doing that.  Just what is this 'form'? ... a editable PDF for download? or something internal to Moodle?  Not trying to pry, but it could become a target for a spambot whose origin could be inside or outside.

If the form is to go to specific teachers for specific courses, think the only place that could be done is at the course level.

My 2 cents!

'spirit of sharing', Ken

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Re: Guest access

από Randy Thornton -

Agree with Ken about the front page.

It sounds to me like the way the block is written, you will need to put the block in the actual courses, since that's where the teacher enrolment is.

The front page is technically a course of its own, so it has its own enrolments. If you assigned a teacher to it, the block would see that, but only for the frontpage; you will not be able to see other course enrolments there.

If you really want the block on the frontpage, then the developer needs to rewrite it so it can pull the enrolment data from -all- courses, not just the course the block is currently in.

Moodle guest access is not dependent on Windows or any other system authentication method. Students - in fact anyone in the world - should be able to see this block in a regular course that has guest enrolment enabled. (Be sure 'User policies > Auto login guests' is checked ON over in Site admin to avoid them having to login as guest.)

 

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