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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:51:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: waltond
Reply-To: Online
Subject: Re: Moodle Email
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Haven't we had the same issue in previous terms?  Or did email enrollment automatically hide the student's address until the student explicitly unhid it?

In any event, I don't see any way to do this--not an obvious one, at least.  If there were a single table with only students' preferences and a predefined field for hiding email, we could issue a simple query to set it to true.  Unfortunately, all user preferences are kept in one table, and I can't even figure out which keyword governs email hiding.  No help on moodle.org, either.

In short, after some detective work to identify exactly how email hiding is stored in the database, it would take some non-straightforward code to make the changes, and I just don't think there's time before the term starts.  And after the term starts, we'd be mucking with preferences that have already been set.

David

>>> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:22 pm, Online wrote: 
> David, 
> This instructor question made me think.  (Damn FERPA). 
> Is it possible to have the display my email address to the class be set to 
> no by default, similar to how we do set the Moodle shells to unavailable to 
> students. 
>  
> Some may argue that even though a student CAN change/hide it, it may be too 
> late, after an earlier logged in student has seen it/copied it. 
>  
> By doing this, it is NOT disabling the email address, meaning Moodle 
> messaging and annoucements forums still send out messages to student email 
> addresses. 
>  
> Joe 
>  
>  
>>>> B Keech <bkeech@hotmail.com> 09/21/06 10:57 am >>> 
>  
> I had some questions about what the students view on Moodle. Will the 
>  
> students automatically be able to see who else is in the class, under 
>  
> participants? If so, is this not a problem of privacy that students can 
>  
> automatically see each other's names? Also, is the default set to have a 
>  
> student's email invisible to others? And finally, I am guessing that 
>  
> individual's grades can only be viewed by that individual? 
>  
>  
> Thank you, 
>  
> Beth 
>  
>  
>  
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>  




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David Walton
Web server/WebCT server/Macintosh server administrator
Information Technology
Lane Community College
Email: waltond@lanecc.edu
Voice: 541-463-3367

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