[LON-CAPA-admin] Auto account

[Stuart Raeburn]

Hon Kie,

Self-creation of accounts was added to LON-CAPA in version 2.7.  Who  
may self-create LON-CAPA accounts is controlled by domain  
configuration set by a Domain Coordinator via:

Main Menu -> Set domain configuration -> User creation

The choices for "User creates own account" are:
Email address   Institutional Login   SSO

The Domain Coordinator can also can configure what types of  
information a user creating his/her own LON-CAPA account can set via:

Main Menu -> Set domain configuration -> User modification

The choices for "Information settable when self-creating account (if  
directory data blank)" are:

Last Name	First Name	Middle Name	Generation
E-mail address	Student/Employee ID

Note: this can be set to vary by institutional status (e.g., Faculty,  
Staff or Student) if you have access to a directory service, and have  
configured definition of institutional types , and also retrieval of  
institutional status for individual users as part of localenroll.pm.

For users creating their own accounts based on instituional login or  
SSO, typically most of the user information will be retrieved  
automatically (this uses the same mechanism via localenroll.pm as used  
for institutional directory searches when an instructor is adding a  
user to a course).  In such cases users creating their own accounts  
will only be able to enter information for any fields unavailable from  
the institutional directory, which were checked in the "Information  
settable when self-creating account" configuration (see above).

Once a user has created a LON-CAPA account, the question then becomes  
what can the user do next?  One possibility is to enroll in courses  
which allow self-enrollment.  Currently this is restricted to  
self-enrollment as a student.

Some discussion is found in the Domain Coordination Manual
(http://msu.loncapa.org/adm/help/domain.manual.pdf)

See:
http://msu.loncapa.org/adm/help/Domain_Configuration_User_Creation.hlp

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group

Quoting "H.K. Ng" <hkng at fsu.edu>:

> Hi, is there a script where a user can request for an account on
> loncapa? I know there is the auto-enrollment for students but what I
> have in mind is for instructors and other users. Thanks, -hk
>
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