History: RecipeHomework

This recipe describes one way to setup and use Tiki with the Homework feature. The Homework is new in Tiki 1.9. Refer to http://tikiwiki.org/Homework for more information about this feature.

In this document, I use the convention that text in black (like what you are reading now) is explanitory, and text in blue is instructions that you must carry out. Text you must type in (onto the Unix command line, in an editor, or into a tiki text field) appears in black monospace font. Optional parameters are enclosed in [] brackets and required paremeters that you must set are encolsed in <> angle brackets.

Prerequisites:

• Tiki 1.9 from March 20, 2004 or later must be installed and working.
• You must have admin privileges for the Tiki.
• Your Tiki must be using the moreneat theme.

The moreneat theme is the only one supported in the current implementation of Homework. This is due to the fact that I modified templates/styles/moreneat/modules/mod-application_menu.tpl for the Homework feature and did not change templates/modules/mod-application_menu.tpl to match. This task so is on my todo list.

The Homework feature includes the following new permissions: tiki_p_hw_admin, tiki_p_hw_teacher, tiki_p_hw_grader and tiki_p_hw_student. Of these tiki_p_hw_teacher and tiki_p_hw_student have meaning in the current implementation; tiki_p_hw_admin and tiki_p_hw_grader are reserverd for future use.

Activate the Homework feature:

Login to your tiki as admin and go to http://<your-tiki-domain>/tiki-admin.php?page=features
Click on the Homework: checkbox, then on the "Change Preferences" button.

Setup the groups and assign premissions to the groups:

Create three new groups: Teachers, Editors and Students.

Setup the group hirarachy of included groups as Teachers > Editors > Students > Registered > Anonymous

That is to say: the "Teachers" group includes the "Editors" group, which includes the "Students" group and so on.