Caroline,

 

Are you using devolved constraints? 

Yes

 

Who for eg Academics, Students, Library staff?

Staff initially to give editing and publishing rights, but we are just introducing devolved constraints for students so that we can pre-populate ‘My Lists’ and also so that we can effectively pilot the Talis Aspire Digitised Content system.

 

 

Do you allow academics to create lists?

Yes. We devolve two constraints as part of the assertion:  listcreator and listpub (list creator and list publisher).

I believe that listcreator is a tenancy wide permission so this gives academics the ability to create a list regardless of their affiliation to a module. Listpub is constrained to module affiliation so academics can only publish lists attached to modules they are affiliated to. This is determined by their editing rights on the applicable module within our VLE (Moodle) with a regular update of our central LDAP directory (the directory used for SAML assertion release). Here is an example of our assertions:

 

·         http://resourcelists.kent.ac.uk/constraints?role=listcreator

·         http://resourcelists.kent.ac.uk/constraints?role=listpub&scope= AC300&scope=AC300&scope=AC501

 

 

Or are they all created centrally?

(no – see above)

 

What challenges have you had with Devolved constraints?

It took us a while to get to a place where we fully understood the permissions model, but on the whole it is a very neat and robust solution that save a *lot* of administrative overhead.

 

 

Email me if you need more info/clarification.

 

Thanks,
Andy

 

 

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Andy Ekins

Project Manager - Library Collections

Information Services
Templeman Library
University of Kent
Canterbury
CT2 7NU
01227 827351

 

 

 

We at Sheffield Hallam are just going live with our devolved constraints and have discovered some challenges!

 

We are interested in who else is using it and how you have it set up.

 

We know that Nottingham Trent are successfully using devolved constraints with their academic staff and that their staff are not able to create their own lists, lists are created centrally for every module.

 

At Sheffield Hallam we have successfully allocated list publishing rights to our academics scoped to  the modules that they use on Blackboard – this means that the Academics lists appear in their My lists and they can edit the lists that are already available.

 

However we would like to enable staff to set up their own lists.  This  can currently only be managed by giving them full (rather than scoped) listcreator rights, which then gives them the right to publish their lists and attach them to any module on our tenancy.  This was a bit of a surprise!

 

I will put in an IDEA to get this changed but would love to know how others are using devolved constraints and if there are any other issues that we should be aware of.

 

Are you using devolved constraints? 

Who for eg Academics, Students, Library staff?

Do you allow academics to create lists?

Or are they all created centrally?

What challenges have you had with Devolved constraints?

 

Thanks

 

Caroline Thorpe

Senior Information Adviser | Information Services Systems Team | Student and Learning Services | Sheffield Hallam University | Howard Street | Sheffield |S1 1WB

+44 114 225 4478

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