Re: Uploading users to custom roles
by Stephen Parry. I suspect that if you assign front page role it will not restrict the users in all the ways you might want, e.g. you cannot disable user profile or password editing this way. I am...
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by Ravi Alamuri. HelloCould you not use cohorts for this? If all you need is to separate the group of student / enrolments then cohorts should work Ravi
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by Stephen Parry. But how do you then assign different system level permissions to the students in those cohorts?
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by Ravi Alamuri. My apologies. I guess I didn't read that part. I was simply addressing the OP's point 1 - labeling or tagging certain group of students for easier maintenance. From Moodle's...
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by Mary Cooch. If we are talking about labelling or tagging users for easier searching/maintenance, perhaps you could explore making custom User profile fields ?
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by Ravi Alamuri. Hello Mary,Possibly. I am not sure what the OP intends to do but if it's assigning special roles, I am guessing neither profile fields nor cohorts would be the right answer.Ravi
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Re: Uploading users to custom roles
by Federica Marra. Wow, thanks to all for your answers! I think it is a common problem that you cannot assign system roles through the csv file.However for my issue (more labeling than assign...
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by Ravi Alamuri. Hello Federica,Cohorts can be site wide as per the documentation https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/CohortsHowever I am not sure how you would assign capabilities to a certain cohort since...
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by Ravi Alamuri. Hello,Just wanted to add - I went through the issue I mentioned earlier and if you follow through the discussion, there is a link to this plugin...
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by Stephen Parry. FYI I have posted a patch on tracker MDL-15187 to add system role functionality to the CSV upload. If it gets accepted, we will then have a solution the Grant Beever's original 2008...
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by s@ g@. Hello Tiffany,Could you please let me know how to did you solve the problem, I am facing similar problem in retrieving information from an external database. Though I gave all the...
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by Matthew Koelling. Thank you for this Jasper.Any reason why this is happening seems kinda weird to me. We are using 2.8 and having the same problem but your suggestion fixed the issue.
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by Kyle Smith. Hi Moodlers,We currently use Moodle in our school and have been using Google Auth for our learners to have 1 password for both Google and Moodle. Students are bulk uploaded at the...
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by Rob Johnson. Are your Google accounts authenticating users from your Moodle or is it the other way around? If the former, there is still the gsaml plugin that is bundled with the Moodle in New...
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by Ken Task. To be sure ... what version of moodle are you using?IF, version 2.7/8, is what you are currently using this...
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by Kyle Smith. Unfortunately we have Moodle authenticating through Google, so this isn't an option. We're actually using the GAuth plugin which is currently in the NZ Schools fork, however this is...
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by Kyle Smith. Thanks Ken, I've sent you a PM to explore this further....Our current Moodle version is 2.8
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Re: Google Authentication
by Ken Task. Rob actually uses ... so anything I'm proposing should (probably) be considered secondary to what Rob says/uses.But just a couple of comments ... the NZ package ... surely there are...
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by Ken Task. Just a follow up ... have been successful in bulk user upload of a set of teachers accounts that authenticate via the plugin...
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by ATCNB IT. We do this.We have Moodle authenticate against an OpenLDAP Server, which in turn acts as a proxy to merge two separate active directories in to a single LDAP view. This is done using...
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