[Building Sakai] Announcements tool query

[Francois Campbell]

Hi Chris.

Thanks for your response. I have gone through the JIRAs appended and
ensured that the instructor role has the necessary permission in
!group.template.course
& !site.template.course. created a fresh course site and the required
sections, announcements are still not including the instructors.

Have I missed anything?



On 29 April 2013 18:04, Chris Kretler <ckretler at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hello Francois,
>
> We experienced the same issue here at Michigan.  It appears that starting
> in 2.8, the announcements tool checks to see if a user has the site.visit
> realm permission before sending a notification email.  Instructors do not
> have this permission in Group templates, therefore do not receive the
> notification.  We worked around this by modifying the instructor role in
> our group template to contain the site.visit permission.  This means that
> newly created groups will have the necessary permissions.  We are also
> working on a SQL query to update existing groups to have this permission.
> Until we have modified all existing groups, we modify them by hand in the
> Realms tool if a user reports a problem.
>
> Here is a relevant jira:
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/UMICH-765
>
> And another that may be relevant:
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-14454
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Francois Campbell <
> francois at opencollab.co.za> wrote:
>
>> Good day.
>>
>> Question :
>> Is there a setting and configuration which we can set to ensure that site
>> instructors receive announcement emails when the selected groups only
>> option is used in the announcements section.
>>
>> Environment:
>> Sakai 2.8.2
>> Course Site with sections, the sections have TAs and students, but no way
>> of assigning an instructor to a section.
>>
>> In the announcements tool when creating a new announcement, the option to
>>  "Display this announcement *to selected groups* only." is selected and
>>  the desired sections are checked.
>>
>> Email Notification select box is set to High - All participants.
>>
>> When the announcement is added it sends emails only to the TAs and
>> Students in the section but not to the site instructors, We wish to send
>> this email to the instructors also.
>>
>>
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