Re: User roles and UI

[Anatoly Volynets <av@total-knowledge.com>]

Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
> How does one become teacher of an object isn't 100% clear to me.
> I guess one of course authors has to grant this right.
>
> See more comments below..
>
>   

Thus far I understood it that any person can be a teacher if he wants
to. He takes or compiles a course to teach for money or for free,
organizes his own audience/clientèle/study group/etc. and does teaching
using all teaching tools in his possession within UU (not many of them
as of today)

One more comment - below.

> sergey@total-knowledge.com wrote:
>   
>> Another question is about "not logged in" users. Per docs they can't
>> browse a Repository:
>> http://www.total-knowledge.com/wiki/index.php/UU_Page_Flow#Not_Logged_in
>> but can see "Lists of top-level course, through problems and text
>> dialogues categories" on the home page:
>> http://www.total-knowledge.com/wiki/index.php/UU_Page_Flow#Content_5
>>
>> What's the criteria for choosing "lists" that should be displayed for not
>> logged in users on the Home page?
>>   
>>     
> Guests need to see things that they can sign up for.
>   
>> Why can't they browse/search a Repository? Maybe they should see partial
>> non-editable versions of the UMOs there?
>>   
>>     
> I don't know (or don't remember) why we decided to make generic object
> repository inaccessible to guests. Perhaps simply because average guest
> does not need to see separate objects? OTOH, if person is coming to our
> site in order to become a course author, access to repository as guest is
> important. I guess I'll say, let's make it generally accessible, unless
> someone
> can remember why it was decided to do otherwise.
>   

I agree. We have to decide on set of things accessible for free and
those ones - for payment as a matter of business. What it has to do with
'signing on' I cannot remember too.
>   

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Anatoly Volynets, Co-Founder
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