CMF_Roles

CMF Roles in Education (Learning Communities)

see also CMF_Creator

I am thinking here of the roles of administrator, instructor, assistant, marker, student, visitor, parent/guardian, etc...

• I wanted to inherit existing zope users as CMF Members. It was easy: create the CMF with Use existing Acl Users Folder, then go into portal manage and choose portal_memberships and select Configuration to map zope roles to CMF roles
• New Users must be at least Members
• Members of a same class as in course can be assigned a special Role (just create a new one in security tab for each new course
• If Anonymous User should not be able to participate, adjust the permissions about portal in security tab
• Workflow set permissions directly on documents (not via inheritance as in regular zope)

Issues

• The undo and list undoable permissions affect whether global actions show up (in the sidebar or topbar)
• Although roles are NOT groups, they can be cumulated to have the desired effect (paraphrased Chris Withers)

Questions

• Why only active Members show up in Change Member Roles? (Makes it harder to assign courses to students who are not yet active.

Resources

• FAQ CMF Permissions
• Role Blacklist Product allows creation of managers who cannot manager subfolders (for different school sites for example)