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Submitted by ckennard on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 21:07.

Is it possible to prevent student's from being able to create groups? Some of our lecturers would like to be able to switch this capability off.

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There is no functionality to

Submitted by nigel on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 09:50.

There is no functionality to prevent students doing this yet. May I suggest you file a feature request for this?

I was wondering if it might

Submitted by ckennard on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 22:00.

I was wondering if it might be possible just to hide the buttons that relate to the student group feature using the CSS, i.e. set diplay to hidden or something? If the students can't see it it wouldn't need removing.

That's not very secure :) It

Submitted by nigel on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 08:32.

That's not very secure :)

It wouldn't take long to add a check to group/create.php looking for a config value and examining whether $USER->get('admin')/$USER->get('staff')/$USER->get('institutionadmin')/$USER->get('institutionstaff') was set.

Our Mahara will be behind a

Submitted by ckennard on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 21:23.

Our Mahara will be behind a very tight firewall and portal and as we'll be using it with a small number of not especially computer literate students I don't think that would be an issue at this stage.