Moodle

Group membership required for a teacher to reply message in forum

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 1.8.2
  • Fix Version/s: 1.9.1
  • Component/s: Forum
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    Moodle 1.8.2+ (of August 8th+-2), Mysql 5.0.22, PHP 4.4.4.8.4, Apache 1.3, Linux 2.6.18
    Firefox 2.0.0.6
  • Database:
    MySQL
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_18_STABLE
  • Fixed Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

On a forum with groups enabled (separate or visible -doesn't matter), a teacher (= leagacy role editingteacher) is not able to reply to messages by members of a group unless the teacher is also member of that group.

mod/forum:replypost allows replying, but groups seem to overrule this. mod/forum:editanypost allows you to edit all posts, even those made by members of groups you are not a member. mod/forum:replynews doesn't affect this, and no other forum permission seems appropriate. This leads to two unintuitive situations:

  • a teacher may be able to edit a post but not reply to it
  • a teacher must add himself to all groups to be able to use forums in a way that he would expect to.

"Workaround" is simple, add the teacher to all groups. It might even be that this is like it is by design, but I think no, it's a bug more likely.

I tested this on 1.8.2+, and it has been reported on 1.9.

Issue Links

This issue is duplicated by:
MDL-10845 [[nopostdiscussion]] when Group mode = Visible Group Critical Closed
This issue has been marked as being related by:
MDL-10845 [[nopostdiscussion]] when Group mode = Visible Group Critical Closed

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Jussi Hannunen added a comment -

Though MDL-10845 is rather terse, I think it is reporting the same issue.

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Jussi Hannunen added a comment - Though MDL-10845 is rather terse, I think it is reporting the same issue.
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Petr Škoda (skodak) added a comment -

groups were rewritten in 1.9 gain, it is working fine there for me
assigning back to OU

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Petr Škoda (skodak) added a comment - groups were rewritten in 1.9 gain, it is working fine there for me assigning back to OU
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Ellen Marie Murphy added a comment -

We are using 1.8 and won't be able to upgrade to 1.9 for a while. Adding the teacher to groups is one work around, but the problem is that when you do that, the instructor can not see the grades for everyone in the class--only one group of students. Is there any work around we could use until we upgrade to 1.9?

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Ellen Marie Murphy added a comment - We are using 1.8 and won't be able to upgrade to 1.9 for a while. Adding the teacher to groups is one work around, but the problem is that when you do that, the instructor can not see the grades for everyone in the class--only one group of students. Is there any work around we could use until we upgrade to 1.9?
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Yolanda Ordoñez Rufat added a comment -

I think this is a duplicate of <a href="http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12004">MDL-12004</a> marked as fixed.

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Yolanda Ordoñez Rufat added a comment - I think this is a duplicate of <a href="http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12004">MDL-12004</a> marked as fixed.
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Petr Škoda (skodak) added a comment -

this should be finally working fine in latest 1.9+, there were fixed several other group related bug - I am afraid backport is not possible, sorry

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Petr Škoda (skodak) added a comment - this should be finally working fine in latest 1.9+, there were fixed several other group related bug - I am afraid backport is not possible, sorry
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Helen Foster added a comment -

Everything working fine in the latest 1.9.1.

Jussi, thanks for reporting this issue, and Petr, thanks for fixing it

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Helen Foster added a comment - Everything working fine in the latest 1.9.1. Jussi, thanks for reporting this issue, and Petr, thanks for fixing it

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