Re: [Hw4mdl-devel] Patch for capabilities

[Ashley H. <as...@ne...>]

Patch is attached

Ashley Holman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here is a patch which demonstrates the use of roles/capabilities to 
> define whether a user has presenter access or not to a Live Classroom.  
> To edit the capabilities, as an Administrator to go Users -> Permissions 
> -> Define Roles.  Edit a role, eg. "Student", and then you can change 
> the capability called "Has presenter access to Live Classrooms".  The 
> default settings are to have teachers and admins as presenters and 
> students without presenter access.
>
> I've added a liveclassroom_getRole() function into 
> mod/liveclassroom/lib.php which is called instead of the generic 
> getRoleForWimbaTools() function in WimbaLib.php.  The reason I moved it 
> is so that Live Classroom and Voice Tools can have separate capabilities 
> defined.
>
> I have only tested this in 1.9 and the capabilities are only implemented 
> for Live Classroom not Voice Tools, so this is just a proof of concept.  
> If you are happy with this implementation I can do some further testing 
> to get it working on older versions and also implement the capabilities 
> for the voicetools module.
>
> Regards
> Ashley
>
>   


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