[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom /html/adm/help/tex ForceIDChange.tex

bisitz bisitz at source.lon-capa.org
Wed Feb 19 13:05:37 EST 2014


bisitz		Wed Feb 19 18:05:37 2014 EDT

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Index: loncom/html/adm/help/tex/ForceIDChange.tex
diff -u loncom/html/adm/help/tex/ForceIDChange.tex:1.1 loncom/html/adm/help/tex/ForceIDChange.tex:1.2
--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/ForceIDChange.tex:1.1	Sun Feb 16 15:39:10 2014
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/ForceIDChange.tex	Wed Feb 19 18:05:36 2014
@@ -2,24 +2,27 @@
 Although the username is the principal unique identifier for a user in LON-CAPA, the student/employee ID
 is a secondary identifier, which needs to be defined (and unique) for certain applications.
 
-The default is not to allow the student/employee ID for an existing user to be changed when  
+The default is not to allow the student/employee ID for an existing user to be changed when
 modifying a user's information in course, author or domain context.
 
 This default can be overridden by checking the ``Force change of existing ID'' checkbox. If that is
-done the old ID will be replaced with the new ID.  (Note: the new ID can not be blank; i.e., once an ID
+done the old ID will be replaced with the new ID. (Note: the new ID can not be blank; i.e., once an ID
 has been set for a user, it can be changed to a different ID, but not set to be null).
 
-A side effect of updating a student/employee ID is that the database file used for the quick  
-look-up of uername for a specified student/employee ID will be updated. This can potentially impact 
+A side effect of updating a student/employee ID is that the database file used for the quick
+look-up of username for a specified student/employee ID will be updated. This can potentially impact 
 bubblesheet grading, if there is a possibility that student/employee IDs are not unique.
 
 However, there is no requirement to set a student/employee ID for a user, and you will not encounter
 issues doing that unless you attempt bubblesheet grading or uploading scores from a csv file 
-containing IDs and points as column data.  If either of those actions are likely to occur in courses
+containing IDs and points as column data. If either of those actions are likely to occur in courses
 in your domain you should attempt to ensure that student/employee IDs are unique.
 
 Your domain may have been configured to automatically update student/employee IDs from an institutional
-data source, and similarly, IDs may be retrieved (and set) automatically when creating a new user, if the
+data source. Similarly, IDs may be retrieved (and set) automatically when creating a new user, if the
 username is for an institutional user, and your domain has been configured to support that.
 
-Individual courses contain their own database files of class rosters, which include a copy of each student's ID.  If a student/employee ID is changed by a Domain Coordinator, there is an option to propagate that change to the individual classlist database files for courses in which the student has a role that is currently active, or one that will become active in the future.
+Individual courses contain their own database files of class rosters, which include a copy of each
+student's ID. If a student/employee ID is changed by a Domain Coordinator, there is an option to
+propagate that change to the individual classlist database files for courses in which the student has
+a role that is currently active, or one that will become active in the future.




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