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.. IVLE - Informatics Virtual Learning Environment
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Copyright (C) 2007-2009 The University of Melbourne
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.. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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.. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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.. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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IVLE users can be given roles, giving them additional power in the system. The
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roles are centered around a typical university teaching structure, with
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tutors, lecturers and system administrators.
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This page lists precisely what is permitted by each role.
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Note that the roles are hierarchical. Being a member of a role implies all of
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the powers of lesser roles.
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Most roles are *per-offering*, which means the user only has the powers of
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that role when dealing with a specific offering of a subject. (For example, a
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lecturer of subject "ivle-101" for 2009 semester 1 is just an ordinary user
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with respect to any other subject, or any other offering of "ivle-101").
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This is the default role for any user. Note that we do not refer to "ordinary
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users" as "students", because "student" implies an enrolment in a particular
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All users have the ability to:
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* Store and edit files in the file system,
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* Execute Python code in the Python console,
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* Serve files privately and publicly,
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* View and edit some of their own details (e.g., can edit display name, but
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not full name, which is required to be the user's formal name).
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The role of "student" is offering-specific. Any user enrolled in an offering
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is a "student" in that offering.
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In addition to the abilities of ordinary users, students have the ability to:
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* View the "subject page" for the offering,
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* View any worksheet in the offering, and its exercises,
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* Submit attempts at any exercise in any worksheet in the offering,
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* Receive a mark for worksheet completion in the offering,
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* Submit a solo project for the offering,
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* Submit a group project for the offering, on behalf of any group they are in.
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The role of "tutor" is offering-specific. Users may be enrolled in an offering
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as "tutor" by a lecturer or admin.
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In addition to the abilities of students, tutors have the ability to:
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* View submissions to projects in the offering,
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* Check out (with an external Subversion client) the part of a student or
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group's Subversion repository which was submitted to a project in the
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* Enrol a user in the offering as a student, if the system administrator has
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allowed it (see ``tutors_can_enrol_students`` under
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:ref:`policy configuration <ref-configuration-policy>`). This is
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**disabled** by default,
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* Create and edit worksheets for the offering, if the system administrator has
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allowed it (see ``tutors_can_edit_worksheets`` under
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:ref:`policy configuration <ref-configuration-policy>`). This is **enabled**
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* Create and edit exercises *for any offering* (as exercises are not
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offering-specific), if the system administrator has allowed it (see
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``tutors_can_edit_worksheets`` under :ref:`policy configuration
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<ref-configuration-policy>`). This is **enabled** by default.
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The role of "lecturer" is offering-specific. Users may be enrolled in an
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offering as "lecturer" by an admin.
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In addition to the abilities of tutors, lecturers have the ability to:
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* Enrol a user in the offering, as a student or tutor,
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* Create and edit worksheets for the offering
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* Create and edit exercises *for any offering* (as exercises are not
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* Edit the details of the offering (such as description and URL),
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* View individual students' worksheet marks for the offering,
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* Create and edit projects and project sets for the offering,
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* Create project groups, and add/remove students from them.
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The ultimate role is "admin". This is a site-wide role (it is not specific to
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Admins have the ability to:
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* Do anything a lecturer can do in any offering,
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* See stack traces when IVLE generates an internal server error (normal users
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see a generic error page),
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* See a list of all users in the system,
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* View and edit all details for all users, including "fixed" fields such as
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full name, and change any user's password without knowing the old one,
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* Enrol a user as a lecturer in any offering,
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* Upgrade any user to admin status, or revoke admin status,
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* Disable (ban) any user from accessing the system at all, or enable a user,
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* See a list of all subjects and offerings in the system,
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* Create new subjects and offerings,
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* Edit the details of any subject (nb: not just an offering),
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* Create new semesters,
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* Change which subject/semester an offering is bound to.
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