Re: User roles and UI

[sergey@total-knowledge.com]

> sergey@total-knowledge.com wrote:
>>>>>>> 1. Let's say an Author wants to check how his Course looks in
>>>>>>> Student's
>>>>>>> eyes. I guess he should either change his role to Student or have
>>>>>>> an
>>>>>>> access to his own Course as a Student. It has to be done within one
>>>>>>> session.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>> Authors shall have "student view" of their objects, but "passing" their
>>> objects
>>> will not be reflected on their overall scores (whatever those will be)
>>>
>>
>> There are 2 ways to deal with this on UI:
>> 1. Stored procedure will grant any Author "Student permission" to the
>> UMO
>> he created. When clicking on "STUDY" link on view object page
>> http://gateway.total-knowledge.com/~sergey/UU/CourseViewRepository.html
>> an Author will see the "Student view" of the UMO right away and will be
>> able to "study" it without buying if the Course is not free.
>>
> This violates the "no score effect" requirement, unless we jump through
> lots of hoops
> in stored procedures when referencing scores.
>> 2. When clicking on "STUDY" link on view object page
>> http://gateway.total-knowledge.com/~sergey/UU/CourseViewRepository.html
>> an Author gets "Study request" from himself by email and approves it in
>> order to check his Course from Student POW.
>>
> Neither will this work. For same reasons as above.
>

Well, then Author may have "preview" link on each view/edit UMO page.
By clicking on it he will see "Student" version of the object.

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