At the end of this week's material, you should have everything you need to complete Assignment 1. Remember that you can include ACL in your site, or you can go deeper into the template material (week 4 videos 7-8 explain this), or you can do both as an "instructor's choice". Your assignment is due on March 3 at 11:59 PM US Eastern time.

Articles

In 2011-2012, I wrote a series of articles on ACL for the Joomla Magazine. These articles are associated with a dated Joomla interface (Joomla 2.5), but the concepts behind what I did are still the same. You may find the theory behind ACL helpful. It will also talk you through the example I'll show you in the videos.

For your assignment, you only need to do something with access levels, or who can see what on the website. The first two articles deal with this. The last 2 articles are more advanced ACL concepts, which may count towards the "instructor's choice" portion of the assignment.