Strange Moodle problem - Teachers cannot add resources or activities to new courses.

[adhutton]

This is strange.

 

Over the last few days we have noticed that teachers cannot add resources or activities to newly created courses. They do not see the 2 drop down boxes at the bottom of each section. They do see these drop downs in courses that were created previously

 

Admins are unaffected. Other teacher editing rights within a course are uneffected.

 

Nothing has changed recently on the Moodle server.

 

Moodle 1.9.9+ (Build: 20100707)

 

Thanks

[Butters]

Do they definitely have the role of teacher within the new course? Are any role override permissions in place on the new courses?

[secretlife]

If you're connected to Darren who posted on moodle.org then as I said to him, happy to take a look if you want to DM me a login - can't promise anything but sometimes 2 heads are better than one and if I can't see anything obvious then at least it will rule out edited permissions etc within Moodle.

[secretlife]

well if you are related to Darren then it seems to have been fixed according to moodle.org - if not, happy to still try to help.

[adhutton]

well if you are related to Darren then it seems to have been fixed according to moodle.org - if not, happy to still try to help.

 

Yes, Darren and I have fixed it:

 

"Phew. I've fixed it. I got the mdl_courses table and went through it looking for differences and found something like restrict modules was set to 1 in new courses. Changing this to 0 fixed everything!

 

I found the setting in admin and changed it back to 'no courses'. It turns out somebody was trying to restrict access to the chat module but either selected everything or nothing.

 

Hope this helps anybody searching in the future. "

 

Read more: Using Moodle: New Courses Broken - Teachers Can't Add Activities Or Resources

 

Thanks to everyone for your help.

 

Andrew