[LON-CAPA-admin] Auto-enrollment - updating class roster

[H. K. Ng]

Hi Stuart,

At 11:55 AM 1/10/2005, you wrote:
>Hi Hon-Kie,
>It is not expected that a Domain Coordinator would want to turn off this 
>type of logging.
>Some questions:
>Is there actually a user in the fsu domain with username 1234?

I should have said user xxxx, not 1234 - an fsu user.

>Are the students who should be enrolled in the course which is generating 
>this log message actually enrolled (each with the correct username)?

Yes, and they get re-enrolled everytime the cron job runs.

>Does ENRL -> Automated Enrollment Manager -> "View students and change 
>type" show the enrollment type as "auto"?

Yes - the word auto is bold.

>The "Existing fsu user $username enrolled successfully" message is written 
>to the auto-enrollment log whenever a user who already has an account in 
>your LON-CAPA domain, is auto-enrolled in a course.  This should occur 
>only once for a specific user in a specific course. Afterwards, whenever 
>the cron job runs, the Enrollment::update_LC() should see that that user 
>is in the LON-CAPA classlist and not try to repeat the enrollment.

That is what I see for the other courses but for this one course, every 
student gets the message

Existing fsu user xxxx enrolled successfully.

>If you are seeing this for every student in a single course, I would 
>recommend looking at the temporary XML file being generated for this 
>course when the cron job runs autoenroll.  As the temporary files are 
>removed after the autoenroll process completes you will need to modify the 
>fetch_enrollment() function in your custom 
>/home/httpd/lib/perl/localenroll.pm file to preserve a copy of the XML 
>file in a different location (from the expected location in 
>/home/httpd/perl/tmp), so you can take a look at it.  The fact that the 
>username is always 1234 suggests that your fetch_enrollment routine may be 
>building an XML file with a record in for each student with an erroneous 
>username (1234).

I will try to do this during a quite time - Friday morning. I will let you 
know if I find something funny.

Thanks,
-hk



>Please let me know what you find out.
>Stuart Raeburn
>MSU LON-CAPA support/development
>
>H. K. Ng writes:
>>In the autoenrollment log, one of the courses has the message
>>Existing fsu user 1234 enrolled successfully
>>for ALL the students in that course every time the cron job runs. It only 
>>does this for that course and none of the other courses. I checked the 
>>settings for the course and cannot find any place where I turn this off.
>>Thanks,
>>-hk
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