Attached is a patch for a suggested change to add a global activity setting for OUBlog so that the administrators for a Moodle instance can decide whether or not blogs on their site are allowed to be configured with Maximum Visibility of world-view or not. The default setting in the patch is No (for our needs at Waikato) but this may be better set to Yes. For some institutions this restriction may not be relevant, but for others they may only want authenticated or class members to view the blog.

As you will see from the patch we added a new capability "oublog_allowpublicview", tweaked mod_form to expose that setting, tweaked locallib to check if user has the capability in the context, and added a couple of language strings to the lang files.