Marty Soupcoff

Saw this discussion pop-up in my email this morning. Forgot about hiding it at the site wide level but it's another option for you. It would hide it from everyone though.

I think the big problem was that since I'm on a different version, didn't see the Navigation and Setting blocks as those are new to 2.0. I can't verify this but you may not be able to hide those blocks. You should be able to override the permissions of a role though that doesn't allow them to change the username or password.

At this point I think you may have to settle for whichever of the two evils you decide is closer to your goal. In my opinion, I don't think it would be possible to keep the 'sanity' of the site when you are looking to allow users to post anonymously. Sorry I can't help more. Maybe another 2.0 user will jump in though.

What about if you create a new user account and assign that user account to the student role in the Front Page Assign Roles. This will allow that user to post in the forum on front page but not access any of the courses as they are not enrolled in the course (if the course allows guest access though they will be able to get in). Regular students in courses will not be able to post to that forum on the front page though as they would need to be added at the Front Page Assign Roles.

If in the future, you would like this new user account to view courses, you can simply add them to that course.

I think the reason I'm having trouble figuring this out is that you are on 2.0 and some of the settings are different than in 1.9. We'll solve it eventually though!

Happy oodling!

I believe what Helen was describing was creating a user account and then making the log in for that account public for all 'visitors' to then see and share. There would be no way of then tracking who was the 'visitor' at which time though because it is a shared account. I'm not sure if that is what you want though as you won't be able to track who posted what.

And these may be a dumb question, but did you make sure to save your changes when you were on the Allow Role Assignments page? Because with the checkmark in the Manager Row - Visitor column, the Manager role should be able to assign a user at the Front Page level. And I see that you pointed out that you are an administrator in one of the images but it does not show the administrator row so I still have second thoughts that you actually may be at the Manager role instead.

I also found this article on the Front Page Settings that describes how you can set a user or all logged in users to a certain role when looking at the Front Page. Furthermore, you can see in the image in the Context section of the Assign Roles Moodle Doc, it shows the hierachy of Moodle. So making a 'Visitor' role may not be best as you mentioned that you eventually may want them to enter certain courses. You could always set up the Email-based self-registration (I believe this is what Moodle.org uses for us to participate in these forums) for users to set up their own user accounts. And then set the Front Page setting default role to student. At least I think that would all work

Happy Moodling!

I'm not sure about what version you were using in your old job but I think the reason that students aren't able to add their own saved images is because current versions of Moodle don't create file directories for the student role. You could always have them add the files to a photo hosting website (photobuckect, tinypic, etc) and link to picture or they can attach the file to the forum post. I believe that if the browser understands the image type, it will then even display it without having to download.

Happy Moodling