Managing access permissions to class notebooks and their section groups in a notebook application

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016162702-A1
Application number	US-201514633951-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 27, 2015
Priority date	Dec 8, 2014
Publication date	Jun 9, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method of adding a co-teacher to an original teacher's class notebook can include, in response to receiving a request, at a client device, to add a co-teacher to a class notebook managed by a classroom notebook application, assigning the co-teacher full read/write permissions to the teacher's class notebook including any section groups having connected role inheritances. The co-teacher is also assigned full read/write permissions to the student-specific section groups and the collaboration space section group, which are all in the class notebook and which have broken permission inheritance. To protect the teacher's personal folder, which is a parent folder to the teacher's class notebook, the classroom notebook application removes the co-teacher's permissions to the teacher's personal folder.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method of managing access permissions to class notebooks, comprising:
receiving a request, at a client device, to add a co-teacher to a class notebook associated with a personal folder of a teacher that is stored at a server, wherein the class notebook comprises a collaboration section group, a content library section group, and a plurality of student-specific section groups, wherein the collaboration section group and each of the plurality of student-specific section groups have broken role inheritances from the class notebook; assigning the co-teacher to the class notebook, including any section groups of the class notebook having connected role inheritances, with read/write permissions; assigning the co-teacher to the collaboration section group and each of the plurality of student-specific section groups, which have the broken role inheritances, with read/write permissions; and removing read/write permissions of the co-teacher from the personal folder of the teacher.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein assigning the co-teacher to the class notebook comprises requesting the server to store the read/write permissions for the co-teacher associated with the class notebook.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein assigning the co-teacher to the collaboration section group and each of the plurality of student-specific section groups comprises requesting the server to store the read/write permissions for the co-teacher associated with the collaboration section group and each of the plurality of student-specific section groups.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein removing the read/write permissions of the co-teacher from the personal folder of the teacher comprises requesting the server to remove the co-teacher from access to the personal folder of the teacher.

5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
notifying the co-teacher that they have access to the class notebook by automatically populating the co-teacher's personal folder with a link to the class notebook.

6 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising adding a new student to the class notebook by:
assigning the new student a read-only role to the class notebook; creating a new section group in the class notebook; breaking a role inheritance setting of the new section group; assigning the new student with read/write permissions to the new section group; assigning the teacher and any co-teachers with read/write permissions to the new section group; and assigning the new student with read/write permissions to the collaboration space.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising removing the co-teacher from the class notebook by:
removing access of the co-teacher to the class notebook; removing access of the co-teacher to the collaboration space; and removing access of the co-teacher to the plurality of student-specific section groups.

8 . One or more computer readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to:
assign a co-teacher with read/write permissions to a class notebook associated with a personal folder of a teacher that is stored at a server, including any section groups of the class notebook having connected role inheritances, wherein the class notebook comprises a collaboration section group, a content library section group, and a plurality of student-specific section groups, wherein the collaboration section group and each of the plurality of student-specific section groups have broken role inheritances from the class notebook; assign the co-teacher to the collaboration section group and each of the plurality of student-specific section groups, which have the broken role inheritances, with read/write permissions; and remove read/write permissions of the co-teacher from the personal folder of the teacher.

9 . The media of claim 8 , wherein the instructions to assign the co-teacher to the class notebook direct the processing system to request the server to store the read/write permissions for the co-teacher associated with the class notebook.

10 . The media of claim 8 , wherein the instructions to assign the co-teacher to the collaboration section group and each of the plurality of student-specific section groups direct the processing system to request the server to store the read/write permissions for the co-teacher associated with the collaboration section group and each of the plurality of student-specific section groups.

11 . The media of claim 8 , wherein the instructions to remove the read/write permissions of the co-teacher from the personal folder of the teacher direct the processing system to request the server to remove the co-teacher from access to the personal folder of the teacher.

12 . The media of claim 8 , further comprising instructions that direct the processing system to add a new student to the class notebook by:
assigning the new student a read-only role to the class notebook; creating a new section group in the class notebook; breaking a role inheritance setting of the new section group; assigning the new student with read/write permissions to the new section group; assigning the teacher and any co-teachers with read/write permissions to the new section group; and assigning the new student with read/write permissions to the collaboration space.

13 . The media of claim 8 , further comprising instructions that direct the processing system to remove the co-teacher from the class notebook by:
removing access of the co-teacher to the class notebook; removing access of the co-teacher to the collaboration space; and removing access of the co-teacher to the plurality of student-specific section groups.

14 . A system comprising:
a processing system; a storage system; a classroom notebook application stored in the storage system that when executed by the processing direct the processing system to: in response to receiving a request to create a class notebook for a teacher, store a new class notebook in a personal folder of the teacher at a server and create section groups including a collaboration space section group and a content library section group; break a role inheritance of the collaboration space section group; assign read/write permissions for the teacher to the collaboration space section group after the role inheritance is broken; in response to receiving a request to add at least one student, assign each of the at least one student read-only access to the class notebook, create student-specific section groups in the class notebook for each of the at least one student, break role inheritances of the student-specific section groups, assign read/write permissions for each of the at least one student to a corresponding one of the student-specific section groups after the role inheritance is broken, assign read/write permissions for the teacher to the student specific section groups having the broken role inheritances, assign read/write permissions for each of the at least one student to the collaboration space section group having the broken role inheritance; in response to receiving a request to add a co-teacher to the class notebook, assign read/write permissions for the co-teacher to the class notebook, assign the co-teacher to the collaboration section group and each of the student-specific section groups having the broken role inheritances; and remove read/write permissions of the co-teacher from the personal folder of the teacher.

15 . The system of claim 14 , wherein the classroom notebook application directs the processing system to assign the c

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Tholfsen Michael Edward
• Han Ivan Hor Siu
• Grudin Jonathan Thomas
• Wionzek Thomas

Classifications

• G06F21/6245 Primary

  Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes · CPC title

• G09B5/02

  with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip · CPC title

• G06F2221/2141

  Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices · CPC title

• G06F21/6218 Primary

  to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database · CPC title

• G06F2221/2145

  Inheriting rights or properties, e.g., propagation of permissions or restrictions within a hierarchy · CPC title