I understand that this may not be possible, but I wanted to ask first.  I've searched through the DNN interface, the documentation, and this forum and can't seem to find any info on it.

I'm trying to set editing permissions on a page-by-page basis.  I am creating a website for a University and would like to give editing permissions to the appropriate members of the departments, but I don't want to give them full access to edit everything on the site (including the home page and the pages of other departments.) 

Using this site as an example, it would be like giving the forum moderator permissions to freely edit the Community page, but restrict them from changing anything on the Home, About, or Development pages.  Then giving the lead developer permissions to edit the Development page, but restrict them from editing the Home, About, Community pages. 

I feel like this is a pretty simple thing and I have seen it on other CMSs, is there a way to do it with DNN?

Thanks!

Right now it's possible to do via group permissions per page but not individual user permissions, thus you may end up with a lot of 1 member groups to implement a quasi per user level of granularity. I know there was talk of using a user based granularity in the any day now 4.5 release so you might want to check the feature list and see if it made it. There are also a couple of user portal type modules available on SnowCovered that might fit the bill as well.