[Moodle] Re: moodle Digest, Vol 46, Issue 53

[Laurie Savage]

Thanks, I thought it was something like that. I was confused by the
"News Poster" permission being in the "Courses" section of the
permissions. Am I right in assuming I should use "Student" as the legacy
role?

Laurie Savage

Just recently, on Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:16:22PM +1100  in fact, Julian Ridden mentioned:
> Adding a news role is very easy.
>
> Just create a new role and call it news poster. In the permissions  
> scroll down and allow "post news". I am doing this from memory so it  
> might be slightly different.
>
> No need to add anything else, just save the role. No go to assign  
> fromtpage roles and assign this new role to the appropriate students and 
> your done!
>
> Julian
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> On 16/12/2008, at 12:00 PM, moodle-request at edulists.com.au wrote:
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>> From: Laurie Savage <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
>> Subject: [Moodle] Moodle permissions: student front page editors
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>> I'm finding the permissions in Moodle 1.9 a little daunting and  
>> somewhat
>> different in their terminology to say Drupal or Plone. I want to  
>> enable
>> trusted students "Student Editors" to run the front page News Items.  
>> Any
>> ideas on how I set this up?
>>
>> Laurie
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>> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:51:16 +1100
>> From: Adam Barbary <home at adambarbary.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Moodle] Moodle permissions: student front page editors
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>> Hi Laurie,
>>
>> 1.9 has the ability to assign roles to the front page. Choose this
>> from the Site Administration menu, under Front Page. You could start
>> by assigning these students to the front page, then using the over
>> rides to expand/limit their activities.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Adam Barbary
>> Viewbank College
>>
>> On 16/12/2008, at 11:32 AM, Laurie Savage wrote:
>>
>>> I'm finding the permissions in Moodle 1.9 a little daunting and
>>> somewhat
>>> different in their terminology to say Drupal or Plone. I want to
>>> enable
>>> trusted students "Student Editors" to run the front page News Items.
>>> Any
>>> ideas on how I set this up?
>>>
>>> Laurie
>>> -- 
>>> Laurie Savage
>>> ====================================================================
>>> Markbook/Moodle Coordinator::Pascoe Vale Girls College::03 9306 2544
>>> ====================================================================
>>> Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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