[Building Sakai] Limited access to Dropbox tool

[Daniel Merino]

Hi everybody,

as I haven't received any answer, I am thinking about trying to do this 
myself.

My new question is: would you consider useful a new permission called 
"dropbox.groups"? In Dropbox tool, users with this permission (I am 
mostly thinking in TAs) could only see folders of students who belong to 
their same groups/sections.

I would like to know that there is some interest before spending time in it.

Thanks in advance.
Best regards.

El 16/03/15 a las 15:01, Daniel Merino escribió:
> Dear community,
>
> in the past this question has been sent to the list several times and I
> think that it never was answered, but I will try again, just in case
> that somebody has solved it with some tool or trick in recent versions
> of Sakai.
>
> Dropbox tool has a great feature that is the automation: each time a new
> student user is created, he can inmediately upload resources to his
> dropbox folder.
>
> However, the administration of Dropbox tool is all-or-nothing.
> Dropbox.maintain permission gives full control over it. Access can't be
> delimited with sections and every instructor or TA can see every folder.
>
> This limit disables the tool for some common use cases, i.e. a
> tutor-student relationship where one tutor should not see the other
> tutors folders, or the management of final degree projects.
>
> Some intermediate role that could only see the folders of students
> assigned to his section should fix all these use cases.
>
> I wonder if somebody has overtaken this limitation of Dropbox and I
> would love to know how could I do the same.
>
> Thanks in advance for your ideas.
> Best regards.

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Daniel Merino Echeverría
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Gestor de E-learning - Centro Superior de Innovación Educativa.
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