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    Posted by cornopean posts: 37 United States

    I am look for suggestions on how to use Tiki as an LMS. I would like to give each course its own homepage. My question is....should I make each course a group? or should I make each course a user? What's the best way to do this?

    I am hoping for a place where students can discuss a class, upload files, have their own blog, etc.

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    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    I think you should be looking at Categories and Groups — not users.



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    Posted by cornopean posts: 37 United States

    Ok...here is how this breaks down:

    Categories:
    This involves making a forum, a blog, and a wiki with a category that is the name of the class. When a student clicks on that category name, he sees everything that has that category. It's not really what you expect to see as a student. You see all kinds of files, forum posts, blog posts, all jumbled together in a heap.

    Groups:
    This seemed like the obvious choice to me, but it is clear now that groups in Tiki are groups of people with certain privileges. A group doesn't get its own landing place on Tiki with its own forum/blog/file repository/etc.

    So....that's kind of where I am on this.

    Posted by Marc Laporte posts: 1647 Canada

    You can have different home pages per group.

    M 😉

    cornopean wrote:

    Groups:
    This seemed like the obvious choice to me, but it is clear now that groups in Tiki are groups of people with certain privileges. A group doesn't get its own landing place on Tiki with its own forum/blog/file repository/etc.


    Posted by cornopean posts: 37 United States
    Hmmmm.....ok. I'll look into this and let you all know how it turns out.

    Posted by cornopean posts: 37 United States

    Ok...so I setup each class as a group. Then I gave each group its own homepage. So far so good.
    But....now when a new user registers at my site, he is able to join a group. Once he joins that group, that group's homepage becomes his homepage. Is there any way to give a user his own unique homepage? Because each user (read student) is going to be in multiple groups. get what I mean?
    What would actually make the most sense for me, is to have each user's homepage be his MyTiki page.


    Posted by hunter238 posts: 2

    wanted to try somethin similar ...
    set mytiki page as homepage .. so each user sees his own page when he logs in.. but didnt find this option ..well maybe u can use the custom page or somethin like that... and put this in there ..

    http://localhost/tiki/tiki-my_tiki.php

    will try it later

    problem i found ... i cant change the preferences on mytiki page as a user.
    personal info and kontodetails i can fill out .. but the preferences/settings tab (einstellungen in german)
    doesnt show any options...