creating a community with three type of users; teachers, students, parents.
each teacher would create a private group, their students would be members of that group.
is there a way to allow parents to be view-only members of a private group? (so they can view group activity without being able to post comments in that group, i.e. just disable shout box for parents?)

Hi Jodi,

That is impossible, if someone join to private group so they can also post status and view entire that group.

Thank you

Dimas, anything is possible. ;) It would be much simpler, of course, if that box were a module I could control in the module manager.
These threads are similar to what I want to achieve:

www.jomsocial.com/forum/technical-issues...de-recent-activities
www.jomsocial.com/forum/profile-universa...-from-user-s-profile

If this is beyond the scope of your support, I will look elsewhere for someone who can help me make it happen. Thank you for your timely response.

everything possibly for hacking but in default system this is impossible ;)

lol, valid point. thank you for answering, Dimas.
I will mark as resolved and go find a hacker. ;)