[Building Sakai] Configure a role of instructor so that he just can update Site Info (course's syllabus) only

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi all,

This is Jira'd as:
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-7768

cheers,
Steve

On 21/07/2012, at 2:28 AM, Raad Al-Rawi wrote:

> Hi Tin
>  
> I’m afraid you are correct – the admin/maintain permissions are not that fine-grained as to allow editing the site information but not editing the tools. Unfortunately, in the code, the 2 functions are enabled by the same permission (site.upd).
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>  
> Best
>  
> Raad
>  
> From: Tin Nguyen [mailto:nguyentrongtin89 at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 18 July 2012 16:13
> To: Raad Al-Rawi
> Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Configure a role of instructor so that he just can update Site Info (course's syllabus) only
>  
> Hi Raad, 
> Thanks for your answer. 
> The thing I want is the instructor just only have privilege to edit Site Information, not have privilege to control other functions (add user to site, add tools, ...). If I configure the role of instructor with site.upd, he not only can modify site's title/description but also can add more tools  and can do some other functions. Can I configure Sakai to do this? 
>  
> Best Regards, 
>  
> Tin Nguyen
>  
> p/s: i have read Permission Definitions in Sakai here https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Permission+Definitions+in+Sakai+2.5 and I don't see any strategy to configure the instructor's role like i want. 
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> 
> 2012/7/18 Raad Al-Rawi <Raad.Al-Rawi at admin.cam.ac.uk>
> Hi Tin
>  
> There is more than 1 permission that controls the various admin functions, e.g. site.upd allows them to change the site configuration (edit title/description, edit tools etc.) but won’t let them amend membership (that’s controlled by the site.upd.site.mbrshp permission)
>  
> What things do you want them to be able to do in Site Info?
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>  
> Best regards
>  
> Raad
>  
>  
> ~~
> Raad Al-Rawi
> CamTools Operations Analyst
> University of Cambridge
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> Tel: +44 (0)1223 760905
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> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Tin Nguyen
> Sent: 18 July 2012 14:47
> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: [Building Sakai] Configure a role of instructor so that he just can update Site Info (course's syllabus) only
>  
> Hi all, 
> I have a question is can we configure a role of instructor so that the instructor just can update Site Info (in our university, it's course's syllabus) only? 
> If we can't configure, is there another tool to use?  
> 
> Please help me, 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tin Nguyen
> 
> 
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