NOTE: At the Dutton Institute, you must be a Drupal "administrator" in order to activate this module. If you are not one, the instructions in this documentation won't work for you :-( But if you like what you see and want to try it in your course, Marty or one of the instructional designers can help you!
Want to make a page (or more!) in your course editable by students?
Set up Drupal
- Go to Site Building --> Modules and turn on 'Nodeaccess'-->Save configuration
- Go to User Management --> Permissions and give administrator access to 'nodeaccess module' by checking the boxes as follows ("X" means to check the corresponding box)
- X administer nodeaccess
- grant deletable node permissions
- grant editable node permissions
- X grant node permissions
- X grant own node permissions
- Save Permissions
- Go to User Management --> Nodeaccess
- Check 'Give node grants priority'
- Go to 'Allowed roles' and check all of the roles
- Under whatever type you're interested (book page, folder, link, page, etc.) in (usually "page"), check 'Show grant tab for this node type'
- Check all of the boxes (view, edit, and delete) for 'administrator'
- Check all of the boxes (view, edit, and delete) for 'Node Author'
- Save Grants
Set Up the Specific Page
- Go to the page you want to set up for students to edit (you should see the 'Grant' tab, which wasn't there before you did the steps above)
- Now it's time to decide your permissions. If you want students to edit the page along with everyone 'above' student, do the following:
- Select the Grant tab
- To set everyone to be able to view the page, check all the boxes under 'View'
- Check all the boxes under 'Edit' for those you want to have edit rights (probably only admin, students, developers, and instructors—avoid anonymous and older students categories like 'su08', etc.)
- Give only 'admin,' 'developer,' and 'instructor' the "delete" permission
- Save Grants