Hi All,

Recently I learned how to find out if a user is a member of a group or not and 
that has been very useful for us.  Now I'm wondering if there is a way to 
determine a user's role?  Specifically, we have a resource that we're blocking 
access to on a per section password basis (we're not using slots but rather a 
stringresponse where the answer is determined by which section the user is in). 
 The TA is going to give that password to the students who come to class to 
participate (and yes, a student could text the password to a student who is not 
there -- we'll have our eyes open for absent students working on the assignment 
for now...)  What I would like to do is to display the password to the TA. 
Instructorcomment would be perfect for this, except that they do not display to 
the Teaching Assistant role.  Is there a corresponding <tacomment> or 
something?  Otherwise, I'm thinking that if the "role" information is available 
as section and group and lots of other information is, I can just wrap the 
display of the password up in block tags which will have as their condition 
that the role eq "Teaching Assistant"  I've tried &EXT("user.course.role") so 
far with no success.  Thanks as always!

Doug

Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technology
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois

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