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
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