Thank you Stuart. Doug
Douglas Mills Director of Instructional Technology Department of Chemistry University of Illinois On 10/1/15, 9:00 AM, "lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org on behalf of Stuart Raeburn" <lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org on behalf of raeb...@msu.edu> wrote: >Hi Doug, > >Virtualization of usernames is planned for a future LON-CAPA release >to accommodate this type of situation. > >What is currently done at MSU in the case where a student changes >his/her MSUNetID (used as the username in the msu domain) >mid-semester, is to have the user continue to log-in using the "old" >MSUNetID until the end of the semester. A domain coordinator will >change the first name, last name and "permanent" e-mail address >associated with the "old" username in LON-CAPA. > >In the event that changing an institutional username also causes >authentication to stop working for the "old" username, then a domain >coordinator can also change the authentication type to "internal" and >direct the student to (a) use /adm/resetpw to set a password, and >thereafter log-in via /adm/login (i.e., not use SSO) for the remainder >of the semester. > >If you use automated enrollment there will be an entry in the >autoenroll.log file noting that a potential username change has been >detected (based on the student/employee ID being used for two >different usernames - the one in LON-CAPA -- "old" username -- and the >one in the institutional classlist -- "new" username). Automated >enrollment does not drop the old username from the classlist and add >the new username to the classlist in this instance. > > >Stuart Raeburn >LON-CAPA Academic Consortium > > >Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmi...@illinois.edu>: > >> Hi All, >> >> We have a student who's had a legal name change and consequently >> changed their user name as well. I think the instructor can >> certainly work around this situation to merge information from the >> two different users in Lon-Capa for calculating grades, etc. but I >> thought I'd throw the situation out on the listserv in case there's >> a way to change the user's ID in Lon-Capa and preserve their >> existing work(?) Thanks as always, >> >> Doug >> >> Douglas Mills >> Director of Instructional Technology >> Department of Chemistry >> University of Illinois > >_______________________________________________ >LON-CAPA-users mailing list >LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org >http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users _______________________________________________ LON-CAPA-users mailing list LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users
