[samigo-team] sharing Resources on SAKAI , , , and images in Question Pool

[Fatima Rahiman]

Dear All

We have request from a lecturer to have documents uploaded to Course 1 made available to Course 2 (which has a different cohort of students).

I understand the way around this is that the  file settings would then have to reflect the option "This file is publicly viewable" which means  all and sundry have access to this resource.
In other words students  could thus  send the link to  other students which would constitute a security risk if the file is meant to be used in Test and Quizzes   instance.
The latter aspect of security breaches refers to images..which we're also  currently having a problem with as  once they're  uploaded to  a question pool (where does the iamge file for the question Pool reside  reside btw)or imported from a previous year courses , the new student can't see these images although the instructor is able to. )
My understanding was that the ability to share files  was one of the nice to have options of SAKAI i.e. the ability to share resources across courses etc.  ..but if it is only available  through making it  public then it defeats our needed purpose of a specific group  needing to view /access this  resource and not everyone (and which by the way is  not covered under the "Display this file to selected groups only" as this pertains to groups in the same  class) .

Or have we just not enabled a particular setting...?We're running SAKAI 2.8
Any comments  will be highly  appreciated!
Ta
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