[Building Sakai] Sections

[Nguni Phakela]

Hi Mariano,

Thanks for the reply. WIll take a look at the link too.

Cheers,
Nguni

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:24 PM, JOSE MARIANO LUJAN GONZALEZ <
jmariano at um.es> wrote:

>  Hi Nguni,
> Are you using the tool Section Info? If you do, you should have in mind
> that Sections are designed to work with categories.
>
> In your case, if a Teacher creates a two sections (SECTION A and SECTION B
> - both from the same category i.e. 'lab') then a student will only be able
> to join one of those two sections.
>
> From the Official Sakai Guide Book: "Unlike groups, a student can belong
> to only one section of a given type at a time. For example, it does not
> make sense for a student to be in tow labs in the same course." So your
> error might come from there and that is why the concept of "category" was
> introduced.
>
> or
>
> We also had some problems at the beginning when customizing our own roles
> and permissions. You should check your realms in that site and check for
> the "section.role.instructor, section.role.ta and section.role.student"
> permissions to check if they have been configured properly.  I recomend you
> to take a deeper look into this confluence page:
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SECT/Authorization+and+Section+Awareness+rules+in+Sakai+2.1
>
> *The SectionAwareness API uses the following rules when determining the
> membership lists of sites and sections
> *
>
> Hope that helps!
> mariano
>
>
>
> El 11/10/2012 11:38, Nguni Phakela escribió:
>
> Hi All,
>
>  We have a scenario: When creating a course, students are automatically
> added to rosters based on university slots/sections.
>
>  Now, a Lecturer wants to create sections for different groups for
> tutorial sections.
>
>  So they go to options and click on the options for manually managing
> sections and students being able to select which tutorial
> section they want to be a part of.
>
>  They are able to create these sections: However, when a student click on
> the link Join, they get this error:
>
>  You are already a member of a section in this category.
>
>  Would anyone know the cause of this and how to resolve it.
>
>  Cheers
>
>  --
> Nguni Phakela
>
>
>
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