[Building Sakai] Announcements tool query

[Francois Campbell]

Thank you very much Kara.

Client elected to use the messages tool to reach all members.


On 30 April 2013 21:25, K Stiles <raraweez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Francois,
>
> If you'd like to be able to add instructors to sections, you can do some
> fun permission manipulation in the site realm to make this happen.  A
> workaround, if you will.
>
> Here's how: grant the Instructor role the section.role.ta permission in
> the site realm (not the group realm). The instructor will now have the
> section.role.instructor permission *and* the section.role.ta permission in
> the site realm, which will allow you to add an instructor to a section
> using the "add TA" option.
>
> I can't think of anything that might break as a result of your doing this
> (while paying close attention to how this affects gradebook and
> assignments2 which both make use of the section.role.ta permission in the
> site realm), but others should feel free to respond in case I'm wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Kara
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Chris Kretler <ckretler at umich.edu>wrote:
>
>> Greetings to you,
>>
>> In re-reading your initial message I noticed the following comment: "no
>> way of assigning an instructor to a section."  Are the instructors not part
>> of the group that is receiving the announcement?  Are you able to add the
>> instructors to the groups in question?
>>
>> ck
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Francois Campbell <
>> francois at opencollab.co.za> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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