[Course Settings] Restrict Users to Their Own Section(s)
When dealing with multiple sections (created manually or cross-listed), the ability to easily limit visibility to other sections users is very important in many cases to comply with FERPA or to maintain control and order in large courses with many sections and teachers/TAs.
A single, course-settings-level check-box would modify user privileges from "this user can view students in any course section" to "limit this user to only see fellow section users".
This can currently be turned on one user at a time. How do I limit a user to only view other users in the same course section? It should be made more clear - it is not just one click per student to change this permission - it is actually 3 actions per user enrolled in the course. From the People starting point - it is (1) to select the user's name, (2) to set 'limit this user to only see fellow section users', and (3) to return back to the main People listing page [or backspace]. So, it really looks more like...
(click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), (click-click-backspace), ...
vs.
click.
In a course with multiple sections (we have several courses with with approximately 75 sections, 42 TAs, 4 Teachers and 2000 students), this is simply not a viable option.
We don't need to do this across the board, but we do have non-academic courses such as resources or labs that use these courses.
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:smileyinfo: Sometimes, with the volume of ideas we have come in, we miss a duplicate. This idea has a duplicate with Course-Level Setting: Restrict Users to Their Own Section(s). Both threads will receive the same updates.
