[Building Sakai] forums section aware

[José Mariano Luján González]

Kara Stiles escribió:
> Yes, Forums is group and section aware. You have to go into the 
> settings page for each forum and/or topic and make changes to the 
> permissions for roles and groups.
>
> I also remember that the groups/sections do not appear on the forum 
> settings/topic settings pages unless each group/section has at least 
> one user in it.
>
> Using group/section awareness in Forums successfully requires, in my 
> experience, creative permission changes and lots of testing.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Thanks,
> Kara Stiles
>
> 2011/2/1 José Mariano Luján González <jmariano at um.es 
> <mailto:jmariano at um.es>>
>
>     Hi all,
>     I´m sure this is a simple question... is FORUM section aware? I´ve
>     been
>     looking around and it doesnt look like section aware. We are going to
>     start an ONLINE course with different sections (each section with a
>     different Teaching Assistant) and since most part of the work is going
>     to take place in Forums, we want to know if there is a way of opening
>     different forums for each section. We would like to have them
>     separated.
>     Any ideas?
>     Thanks,
>
>     Mariano
>     Universidad de Murcia
>
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Hi Kara,
Thanks for your indications, I actually solved the problem yesterday 
thanks to Dani Merino (yes!, FORUMS is section aware), I was expecting 
to see the configuration in another way (like in all other tools, but 
since Forums has its own roles, thats why it is a bit different). I 
think it's a bit complex for a medium user. As you say, when you create 
the forum or topic, you can set specific permissions to a Section but 
what I see know, is that you can´t differ from roles in that section, 
you apply the permissions to all the section. I´m sure you have more 
experience using forums and maybe I´m doing something wrong...

 The testing that I did is:
One course with two sections (G1 and G2).
The default course forum is visible for both sections.
I created one forum with one topic for each section (F1, T1 only visible 
for G1 and F2, T2 only visible for G2)
     F1 and T1 
            G1 section (contributor)          
            G2 section (none)
            Student (none)
     F2 and T2
            G1 section (none)
            G2 section (contributor)                      
            Student (none)
I created one forum visible for both sections (F3, T3 visible for G1 and 
G2).
     F3 and T3
            Default permissions

With that configuration Instructors would see all forums and they have 
permission for configuration "Owner" and Students would only see their 
specific forum and the common forum with only "Contributor" permissions. 
Do you know if its possible to have a SECTION forum created 
automatically for each section in the same way that the site forum is 
created?? That would make it easier for instructors and also could give 
them an example on how to use SECTION forums.

I´m not sure if i´ve been clear on my explanation, if you need some more 
info, please let me know.
Thanks a lot!
Mariano
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