Posted by 0utKast on August 25, 2010 at 9:27am
Hi all:
I'm trying to create a digital notebook for use in my school. I'm using organic groups and Gradebook. I guess my problem have a simple solution, but I am not able to find it. I want that when a student response to one assignment, this response can only be seen by the teacher and the student himself, not by the other students. I can not do it. When a student answer the teacher's task, the response is always seen within the group. I used the content access module, but it does not work. All the students in the group can see the response. Could you give me a hand? Thanks.
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Use a distro with features, context and spaces
Hi, this question was posted a while back, I see .... Don't know what your solution was. I just wanted to say that I think you're onto the crucial issue that drove the development of the new installation profiles using context, spaces and features. You'll notice that eduglu and others are using it and some are rolling their own. I am building on Open Atrium. It has its downsides, especially, in my humble opinion, in terms of keeping all the modules involved in a feature up-to-date (security), but it enables you to have groups that work. I suppose the new groups in Drupal 7 work well, but for now, try one of the alternatives.
http://FlossEd.org - Free & Open Source Schools -- Free & Open Minds
OutKast...
I am unfamiliar with your exact configuration. And we do not use Gradebook. But we are working with dozens of schools and thousands of kids using a Drupal multisite configuration, Organic Groups and a variety of other modules that make the system very very powerful. In addition, we have resolved what I think you are describing -- the ability to have some content ONLY visible to the teacher and student author.
First, we are set up so that ALL content can be seen by both student authors and teachers in the group or classroom. We believe this fosters amazingly positive behavior, engagement and peer-to-peer learning. HOWEVER, we realize there are circumstances where there needs to be content that the student shares only with the teacher and where there are private communication only between teacher and student. Here's how we do it:
Organic groups are configured closed and private so that students within the overall school site can only access content created in their assigned classrooms.
Organic group vocabularies, OG block visibility and Views set ups allow enhancement of the segmenting of information on a classroom-wide basis.
Publish content module and associated role permissions allow the students to have the option of "unpublishing" their work, making it visible only to themselves.
Giving teachers node admin permissions allows the teacher to see all "unpublished" content, thus student "responses to assignments" can be seen only by the teacher and student author.
Now, another added feature we have is Revisioning. Using this module and Module Grants, we are able to ensure that only teachers and the student author can see the revisions of a particular node. Meaning that if a student did not publish a piece, worked with the teacher, did revisions and then later decided to publish it to the rest of the class, ONLY the author and teacher could see the revisions and thus the earlier version still could not be seen.
Finally, we have set up the Private Messaging module to block messages between students, thus students don't "chat" outside the teacher view, but, more importantly, teachers and students can exchange private messages regarding work without fear of another student viewing that message by accident, thus privacy is ensured.
I hope this helps. Our main site, by the way, is ywpschools.net although that is only a skeleton of what's happening on the school sites themselves.
geoff
ggevalt
www.youngwritersproject.org