[Using Sakai] Classifying students by programmes

[Kara Stiles]

Here's some recorded web training on Realms and Permissions.  It's from 2.5,
I think, but most of the training still applies.

https://mysakai.rsmart.com/access/content/group/54b9f129-d857-4626-97e2-f9f79ff7f833/Customer%20Training%20Videos/

Thanks,
Kara

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Rafael Morales <rmorales at udgvirtual.udg.mx
> wrote:

>  Thank you all. However, I need to clarify my thoughts on this, so I need
> to ask more detailed questions:
>
>    - Would the !user.template.phd allow me to define new users as phd
>    (instead of registered or guest)? I can see other templates:
>    !user.template.maintain and !user.template.sample; but I cannot create users
>    of those types, can I?
>    - Would I need to define something like !site.template.phdproject and
>    !site.template.phdseminar to facilite the creation of sites available only
>    to PhD students? Is it a way to create sites available only to registered
>    (not guest) users.
>
> I have to say that the realm part of Sakai has been the harder one for me
> to grasp.
>
> Regards,
> Rafael
>
> El 24/11/2010 03:21 a.m., Steve Swinsburg escribió:
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
>  If you have this information in LDAP or can feed it into another
> provider, you can set a user type based on that attribute, say 'phd'. Then
> create a !user.template.phd template (note the phd at the end which matches
> the user type) and assign the appropriate permission to that user type only.
>
>  cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
>  On 24/11/2010, at 5:03 PM, Rafael Morales wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>
> Is there a way to classify users in categories other than registered and
> guest? If so, is there a way to make sites available to a particular class
> only? For example, we are using Sakai to support seminars in our PhD
> programme and we would like our PhD students, *but no other students*, to
> freely register the seminars they will to.
>
> Regards,
> Rafael
>
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