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<\/a><\/p>\nWhen a site maintainer uses the light bulb<\/strong> option to hide a tool from access users, it only hides the LINK to the tool from the left hand menu, so that the students can\u2019t access the tool via the site in question. (Think of this as a ‘soft’ hide function, for cosmetic purposes…)<\/p>\n Material in a hidden tool is still accessible to a student (with the access<\/strong> role) in other ways, for example:<\/p>\n There are several ways to ensure that student access to the content<\/strong> of a hidden WebLearn tool is completely disabled:<\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> Remove the ‘read’ permission from the access role in the tool in question:<\/strong><\/p>\n 2.\u00a0<\/strong> If the tool is ‘group aware’, you can protect it (and also folders\/files in Resources) to staff-only groups<\/strong><\/p>\n In the Resources<\/strong> tool the ‘read’ permission is mandatory. Removing the ‘read’ permission from the access role in Resources<\/strong> would mean that the access user would not be able to read other files, such as attachments…. Therefore, instead of option 1 above, use option 3:<\/p>\n 3. Hide the folders\/files within Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n The new version of Sakai (Sakai 11) displays an explanation about how the’soft hide’ light bulb on the Page Order tool works. The central WebLearn team will implement some improvements to the current interface to make it clear that there are other ways for an access user to gain access to the content of a softly hidden tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ‘light bulb’ tool on the Site Info > Page Order function Have you used the light bulb icon to hide a WebLearn tool from access users? When a site maintainer uses the light bulb option to hide a tool … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\nHow to completely disable access to the content in a (hidden) tool<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nResources is a little different in terms of permissions<\/h2>\n
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