Hi, Proposal #12 'Default Groups' talks about setting up default (undeletable) groups:
1. Students 2. Teachers 3. Clerks 4. School Administrators 5. Site Managers To me, the above list implies "user roles", i.e. depending on what is your role, you will implicitly have certain permissions on the system. Now I have a question about terminology. I think there might be some confusion about the use of the term 'groups' looming. I think there are various "shades of groups" to be dealt with and it might be necessary to differenciate them? In SchoolTool, under 'Groups' there are: 1.) 'Course Sections' (i.e. a 'relationship set' of Teacher - Students - Location - Term - Timetable) 2.) 'User Roles' (e.g. 'manager' aka 'site manager' with all system permissions) 3.) (Ad-hoc) 'Teams' (e.g. a group of students working on a project, the football team, etc.) I'm not sure if it is necessary to distinguish these different concepts in the code, but I suspect so. I definitely think it would be helpful for everyone to be clear about these different concepts and use the most precise word when discussing proposals, etc. It is probably a good idea to agree on a 'nomenclature' and then put the terms in the glossary of the website. Best, Philipp Tom Hoffman wrote: > I've been putting up enhancement proposals here: > > http://www.schooltool.org/products/schooltool-2006/releases/m2 > > --Tom > _______________________________________________ > Schooltool-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool-dev -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::. Philipp Schroeder DIN15 / Information Architecture & Interaction Design www.din15.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
