Note: To complete these procedures, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles: Overview.
On this page:
When you create a new forum or topic, the default permission settings assign each role in the site (e.g., student) to a predefined permission level (e.g., Contributor). You can change the permissions from the default settings either while you're creating a new forum or topic (see Creating new forums and topics), or when you're editing an existing forum or topic (see Revising or deleting a forum or topic).
Under "Permissions", you can modify permission levels for participant
roles (and groups, if you've created them; see Managing groups). Click the right arrow next to "Permissions" to
expand the options available. Next to the role of the participant,
use the Permission Level
drop-down list to select from
several predefined permission levels. Additionally, you can create
custom permission levels by clicking the right arrow next to
"Customize" to enable or disable specific functions.
Note: Forum permission settings will apply to all subsequently created topics in that forum, but if you modify forum permission settings after topics have been created, you must change the topic permission settings separately.
When creating custom permission levels, the functions you can allow participants to perform are:
To limit access to a specific group, you must consider role-based permissions also. For example, if the student role has permission to view a given forum or topic, then all students will be able to see it, regardless of group settings. To limit a forum or topic so that only one group can see it, remove permissions from the role to which those group members belong, and then grant permissions to the group only, as follows:
New Forum
or New Topic
, or
click Forum Settings
or Topic Settings
to modify an
existing forum or topic.
Forum Settings
or
Topic Settings
page, under "Permissions", next to the
relevant role (e.g., "student"), from the Permission Level
drop-down list, select None
.
Permission Level
drop-down list next to the group name, choose a permission level
(e.g., Contributor
), or click the right arrow next to
"Customize" and check the boxes below the drop-down list to enable or
disable specific functions.
Save
.