--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Quotas.tex 2008/07/23 02:41:55 1.1 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Quotas.tex 2025/01/08 23:11:10 1.9 @@ -1,15 +1,29 @@ \label{Domain_Configuration_Quotas} -Each user in your domain will receive an individual portfolio space -to which files may be uploaded. Students can submit items from their -portfolio to meet the requirements of assignments in their courses. -The default quotas you set for users in your domain will be overridden -by any quota you set for individual users. +By default, each user in your domain can create blogs, a personal +information page, store files in an individual portfolio space, set +rules on access by others to individual file(s) in the portfolio, and +set the time zone to use when showing open dates. due dates etc. +Students can submit items from their portfolio to meet the requirements +of assignments in their courses. -Default quotas (in Mb) can be set to vary by institutional affiliation, -as defined for your domain (e.g., Faculty, Adjunct, Staff, Student). +You can choose to disable personal information pages, blogs, portfolios, +portfolio access by others, and/or time zone setting for different groups +of users defined for your domain (e.g., Faculty, Adjunct, +Staff, Student). If the ``Modify User'' utility in User Management is +used to explicitly set availability of these tools for a particular user, +that will override the corresponding settings determined by the user's +affiliation. + +If you choose to enable portfolios, default quotas (in MB) +can similarly be set to vary by institutional affiliation. If a user is affiliated with more than one group, whichever default quota is largest for the different groups is the one which applies. -Institutional types need to be defined in a customized version of -\&inst\_usertypes() in the localenroll.pm module installed on the -primary server in your domain. If no types have been defined, then -a single default quota will apply for all users from the domain. +Institutional types are defined in the ``Institutional user types'' +section on the ``Default authentication, language, timezone, portal, types'' +screen. If no types have been defined, then a single default quota +will apply for all users from the domain. + +Default portfolio quotas which can be set for users in your domain +will be overridden by any quota you set for an individual user via: +the ``Modify User'' utility. +