From cde1ac3eea60141c86cdf6bec118a2f5d3f340cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ankit Agarwal <ankit@moodle.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 12:43:30 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] MDL-57362 assign: Fix permission checks

---
 mod/assign/locallib.php | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mod/assign/locallib.php b/mod/assign/locallib.php
index 559728825c8..d1070a02019 100644
--- a/mod/assign/locallib.php
+++ b/mod/assign/locallib.php
@@ -3083,7 +3083,8 @@ class assign {
         }
         // Checks for the edge case when user belongs to no groups and groupmode is sep.
         if ($this->get_course_module()->effectivegroupmode == SEPARATEGROUPS) {
-            $groupflag = !empty(groups_get_activity_allowed_groups($this->get_course_module()));
+            $groupflag = has_capability('moodle/site:accessallgroups', $this->get_context());
+            $groupflag = $groupflag || !empty(groups_get_activity_allowed_groups($this->get_course_module()));
             return (bool)$groupflag;
         }
         return true;