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Steve Cullison wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi all.
I think I'm trying to do something that pmwiki doesn't support. I
would like to require admin approval of all updates to the site. I
know that sounds like a pain, and would lead to slow development of
the site, but I'm going to use this in a school setting and want to
do everything I can to prevent students from posting things that are
inappropriate. Any ideas?
Thanks for your help!
Newbie</pre>
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IMHO, you'll need to be a bit more flexible while also
promoting/developing student responsibility. <br>
<ul>
<li>Offer student passwords that you can remove for abuse. One can
break it down to group passwords if you wish so a student can only edit
their group. <br>
</li>
<li>Set up some trusted students as moderators who agree to monitor
their group, or various groups within the site. <br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>This frees you to just monitor their moderator work. <br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Use the notify and site.notifylist feature and set the
moderators to recieve emails for changes in the groups they are
moderating. <br>
</li>
<li>They (not you) need to moderate those changes for
appropriateness and deal with it appropriately. <br>
</li>
<li>If abuse becomes a problem, set up a moderator court where the
students are judge and jury for abuse and how to deal with it. <br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>Typically, when given such responsibility, students are
stricter on themselves that you might otherwise be. Plus you are
insulated from being the bad guy... <br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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Always, Dr Fred C
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:drfredc@drfredc.com">drfredc@drfredc.com</a></pre>
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