[Using Sakai] Guest access?

[Adam Marshall]

The difference between creating a read-only role and allowing .auth / .anon to visit a site is that you do not have to add individuals to the site and assign them the read-only role. Using .auth or .anon just allows logged in users or the general public to visit the site. The problem here would be one of discovery – how are they going to find a site?

You could use the ‘site browser’ tool (Find Sites). You can try it out by looking at the front page of our system weblearn.ox.ac.uk. We’ve modified the site browser tool so that the list of results is a bit more intuitive, I don’t think we’ve had to time to contribute back yet though.

Another option is (I guess) to make sites joinable. Set it up so that when one joins, one gets the readonly role. That way people can discover sites using the Memberships tool.

Adam

--

** Note change of email address to adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk<mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk> **

Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.


From: Neal Caidin [mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org]
Sent: 13 March 2015 13:28
To: Adam Marshall
Cc: Gregory Guthrie; sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Guest access?

Here is also an article by Steve Swinsburg on Sakai roles. He even gives an example of a read-only one:

https://steveswinsburg.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/roles-in-sakai-sites/

HTH


On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk<mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
I believe so but if not you can change the permissions for .anon  / .auth in gradebook to stop them.
adam

--

** Note change of email address to adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk<mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk> **

Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.


From: Gregory Guthrie [mailto:guthrie at mum.edu<mailto:guthrie at mum.edu>]
Sent: 13 March 2015 13:14
To: Adam Marshall; sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>
Subject: RE: Guest access?

Would this keep them from showing up in gradebook and other reporting?
-------------------------------------------
From: Adam Marshall [mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 6:15 AM
You can assign either .auth or .anon to a site (via Realms) you can then set permissions for these roles so access is ‘read-only’. This approach isn’t very scalable though.

adam
--
Subject: [Using Sakai] Guest access?

Is there some standard way to define a “guest” role for access to a course, where they are not in assignments, or gradebook, etc., but basically just a way for someone to get read-only preview access to a course and its resources – for “shopping around” to see if they want to take the next offering of a course?
-------------------------------------------


_______________________________________________
sakai-user mailing list
sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>
http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-user

TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to sakai-user-unsubscribe at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:sakai-user-unsubscribe at collab.sakaiproject.org> with a subject of "unsubscribe"

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-user/attachments/20150313/991c611b/attachment-0001.html