A person on Mahara can be assigned the peer, manager or both roles for a portfolio. This selection gives them additional permissions. The selection of the roles happens on the “Edit access” screen. The assigned roles are applied to all selected portfolios as per current Mahara functionality. In order to select the role, an additional drop-down menu is displayed once a person has been selected.
The roles have the following characteristics:
• The role selector only appears when the portfolio owner searches for individual users. The roles cannot be given in bulk, e.g. to “Friends” or an entire group.
• The role governs view_access, blocktype.
• Peer role:
• Can fill in the “Peer assessment” block (bug #1784778);
• Can see page names, page instructions, block titles (but not block content) on the pages to which they have access to provide contextual information relevant to the peer assessment they are providing;
• Is selected during the portfolio sharing process;
• When used in conjunction with the “Manager” role, this role can see other content in the portfolio.
• Manager:
• Is selected during the portfolio sharing process;
• Can see the entire portfolio (the peer assessment block content once the peer set it to be viewable);
• Can mark a portfolio page in the assessment portfolio as verified.
Note: If the page is also shared with other users, e.g. friends or registered users, then the more permissive rights take precedence. That means: Friends can see all content on a page. If “Friends” is selected to view a portfolio and a friend is specifically selected to be a peer, the peer can see all page content.
A peer can also be a manager. That means that the peer can see all block content because the manager role is more permissive.
Required by bug #1784778
Patch for "master" branch: https:/