[Portfolio] [DG: Teaching & Learning] Groups are being auto-created by lessons tool

[Neal Caidin]

Hi ,

Can you provide steps to reproduce the issue? That would be most helpful.
Generally I understand what you are saying but having the exact
step-by-step will make it easier to see what the root cause is and if it is
working as designed or a real problem.

I believe Lessons does auto-create groups to manage the complex options it
has for releasing content.

Thanks,
Neal


On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

>  Perhaps I should clarify what the issue is here.
>
> As I understand it, forums are being accessed via the lessons tool. A
> variety of topics have been set up in forums and are available to the whole
> site.
>
> When students try to respond they cannot post because (apparently) the
> visibility of the topic gets changed to be only available to a site group.
> The groups are named "access: <title of forum topic>" but don't have
>
> The site owner says she hasn't created these groups and has deleted them
> and reset the visibility of the topic. As students try to respond, the
> groups get created again so the whole thing fails.
>
> We can't find anything about groups getting auto created by lessons or
> forums.
>
> Help!
>
> Ad
>
> sent from my phone
> On 3 Nov 2014 12:55, Fawei Geng <fawei.geng at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> Thanks for reading the question.  To provide a bit context of the issue,
> at Oxford we are using Sakai 10 and ‘Project’ site.
>
>
>
> A user with the ‘maintain’ role uses the Forums tool and links to Forum
> topics in the Lessons tool.   Last a few days she discovered that some of
> her students couldn't see a forum topic.  Then she noticed the cause was
> that the topic was assigned to a group that she was aware of.   I was told
> that the other maintainers in the site did not create any groups.
>
>
>
> This sounds quite strange to me and I could not reproduce what she
> experienced.   The only thing I can think of is the ‘Lessons” tool that has
> been newly introduced at Oxford in September.
>
>
>
> Has the similar issue occurred to you when using the Forums and Lessons
> tool?
>
>
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Fawei
>
>
>
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