Managing Permissions in the Learning Tools Feature
As appropriate, you can give users varying management privileges within the Learning Tools feature. One permission—the permission to activate tools—is managed at the feature-instance level. All other permissions are global feature operations, and therefore portal-wide.
Permission to View the Feature
There is no permission that specifically allows viewing of the feature. In other words, if the feature is placed on a page that a guest or user has permission to access, then the person will be able to view the Learning Tools feature instance and any tools that have been activated there.
In order for a user to be able to activate learning tools and create an introduction in a particular instance of the feature, the user must belong to a role that has the Can Set Up Tools permission.
Log in to the portal as a user with administrative privileges and navigate to the page that contains the Learning Tools feature instance.
Click the wrench icon in the upper-right corner of the page.
The admin bar displays.
Click the Access link in the admin bar.
The system displays the Access page, which lists all the roles defined for this context as well as all the global roles. Roles that have access to the page are highlighted in green. Roles that do not have access to the page are shaded gray.
Locate the role that should be granted permissions, and take one of the following steps:
If the role is highlighted in green, this means the role already has permission to view the page. Click the role to display a dialog that lists the permissions available in each of the features found on the page.
If the role is shaded gray, this means the role does not have access to view the page. You must first grant the role access to the page before you grant permissions. To do so, click the role and then click the Hidden button to change it to Visible. Now that the role can view the page, the screen refreshes to list the permissions available in each of the features found on the page.
Under the list of permissions for the Learning Tools feature, click the button next to the Can Set Up Tools permission to change the setting to Yes.
Note
The Can Set Up Tools permission only gives the user permission to activate a tool. If you want the user to have permission to add tools (enter the tool’s details into JICS), then the user must belong to a role that has the Can Add Tools or Can Manage All Tools global feature operation.