--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Quotas.tex 2014/06/26 15:07:10 1.3 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Quotas.tex 2025/01/08 23:11:10 1.9 @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@ \label{Domain_Configuration_Quotas} By default, each user in your domain can create blogs, a personal -information page, and store files in an individual portfolio space. +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. -You can choose to disable personal information pages, blogs and/or portfolios -for different groups of users defined for your domain (e.g., Faculty, Adjunct, +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, +used to explicitly set availability of these tools for a particular user, that will override the corresponding settings determined by the user's affiliation. @@ -16,7 +19,7 @@ can similarly be set to vary by institut 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 are defined in the ``Institutional user types'' -section on the ``Default authentication/language/timezone/portal/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. @@ -24,29 +27,3 @@ Default portfolio quotas which can be se will be overridden by any quota you set for an individual user via: the ``Modify User'' utility. -Additional options for authoring spaces can be set for the various user -types: (a) whether webDAV is active, and (b) the default quota for Authoring Space. -These only come into effect for a particular user, when an author and/or one or -more co-author roles have been assigned to a user to provide access to one or more -Authoring Spaces. - -WebDAV allows a user to connect to an Authoring Space in the same way as removable -media, and to use their own laptop/desktop computer's file management tools and -applications to move, edit and delete files. In the case of MacOS, the user selects -the ``Go'' item in the Finder toolbar and selects ``Connect to Server''. -The user will then enter a URL for a library server where the authoring space is located: -e.g., https://s10.lite.msu.edu/webdav/msu/sparty/ where msu is the domain and sparty -is the username of the Authoring Space. Note: webDAV usage requires Apache/SSL to be -running on the library server. The user will be prompted to enter a username -(this will be the LON-CAPA username, if the user is also the author, or username:domain -of the user, if the access is for a co-author), and the user's LON-CAPA password. - -The requirement to obsolete published files before moving or deleting them, which applies to -the regular web browser-based management of Authoring Space, also applies in the webDAV -environment. Moving and deleting directories in the webDAV environment is prohibited if -the directory, or any (nested) subdirectory contains a non-obsolete published resource. - -Given the ability to easily delete unpublished content in webDAV (without the ability to -reverse the deletion), it is important that authors assigned webDAV access are especially -careful when working in the webDAV environment. -