Question for Community - Fordson Teacher Dashboard Links

Question for Community - Fordson Teacher Dashboard Links

by Chris Kenniburg -
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Hello All,

A few people have asked and I am wondering if others have had the same idea.  Fordson implements a "Teacher Dashboard" which displays an organized list of all the links typically found in the Course Administration block/menu.  

Would it be desired or useful to be able to click checkboxes from the Fordson theme admin page to select which menu items you want to appear for teachers?  This feature would allow a site admin to choose which links to show or hide from teachers and might make the course administration a little less cluttered and focused on the course links they need to use.  

What are your thoughts?

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Re: Question for Community - Fordson Teacher Dashboard Links

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Hi Chris,

You could implement custom capabilities that control if a link is shown.  Then you'll be able to select whole groups of teachers or have different custom roles etc. and use the power of that core system.

Collapsed Topics and the Grid format implement custom capabilities if you want to see how it is done.

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Re: Question for Community - Fordson Teacher Dashboard Links

by Chris Kenniburg -
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Thanks Gareth.   That is a great suggestion. I will look into that.  It sounds complicated though!