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