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we are using simple:press as a way for students and teachers to discuss classes, and will need a new forum and group for each class. We do not want students from the 2016 class to have access to the 2017, and vice versa. We aren't using pilot press to manage users, we are using Ontraport. How do I create groups that I can subscribe users to? Or how else will I manage to keep groups and forums separate? TIA!
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You just need to make good use of our User Group and Permissions structures to organise your students and their access. We actually have several users such as yourselves successfully doing this.
I would start with the Codex items (see the codex menu in the right sidebar) and tae a look at the 'Getting Started' section - particularly on User Groups, Permissions and Access.
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Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately the codex pages didn't address my needs.
I created a new Group and forum and they were immediately visible to the existing group and forum members, which is what I do not want to happen.
best case scenario is that there is a separate page URL for each group, so that way I can manage members via permissions on that page in PilotPress. But that doesn't seem possible.
Next best case would be to be able to manually add members to a particular group (while not allowing them access to other groups) but that doesn't seem possible either.
Do I need a specific plug in to help me manage my subscribers in this way?
Thanks!
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Did you read the part on permissions? Forums are only visible if you let users view them.
when you create a new forum at the bottom of the create form is a list of user groups and the permission set you want them to have on this new forum. You have complete control here. Give all user groups no permission and the forum will not be visible to anyone except admins. You can change these permissions at any time after creation tad well
so this gives you complete control on access and does allow you to completely hide any new forum.
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To build on what @mr-papa said above - I would have thought the best scenario for you - and what other educational users have done - it to create unique user groups for each class which you then map to their respective forums as outlined above.
Depending upon how your students register on the website, you could even (with a WordPress plugin) assign them into WP roles which could then be automatically mapped to Simple:Press user groups - see the 'map users to user group' admin panel in the forum admin.
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