[LON-CAPA-admin] Updating class roster

[Stuart Raeburn]

Hi HK,

>
> ... Now he wants to update with names, emails etc. Just uploading a
> csv file doesn't seem to do it.
>

Select the Domain Coordinator role in the instructor's domain, and use:

Main Menu > Set Domain configuration > Display (User modification checked)

In the second panel (Target user has role | User information updatable  
in course context), check the checkboxes for any fields (chosen from::  
Last Name, First Name, Middle Name, Generation, E-mail address, and  
Student/Employee ID) for the "Student" row, which you would like a  
Course Coordinator to be able to modify via upload of a csv file  
containing usernames, (and the corresponding additional user  
information), and push the "Save changes" button.

>
> Is there a script that can update the
> roster and also, the info in each user directory?
>

There is a nightly script -- /home/httpd/perl/Autoupdate.pl, which by  
default runs at 3:30 am local time, if you use:

Main Menu > Set Domain configuration > Display (Auto-update settings checked)

and set the following two configurations:

Auto-update active
Update information in classlists

to yes.

However, for this to work you need to customize the &allusers_info()  
routine in /home/httpd/lib/perl/localenroll.pm to retrieve user  
information from an institutional data source, although that source  
could potentially be a plain text file on the same server, if you so  
wished.

See: section 2.9 "Identity Management: Automated Updates of User Informa-
tion" on p. 15 of the Domain Coordination manual.

Note: if you are running a multi-domain server, you can customize  
allusers_info() to retrieve user information for the different domains  
from different sources. The first item in the arguments received by  
localenroll::allusers_info() is the domain.


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


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

> Hi,
>
> I have an instructor who manually entered the username/password
(only) for
> his class.  Now he wants to update with names, emails etc. Just
uploading a
> csv file doesn't seem to do it. Is there a script that can update
the
> roster and also, the info in each user directory?
>
> Thanks,
> -hk