[LON-CAPA-users] problems with mass-enrollment at the domain level

[Itay]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, at 16:57, Raeburn, Stuart wrote:
> Itay,
> 
> Sadly a regression was introduced in LON-CAPA 2.11.2 which prevents 
> bulk user information changes being made by a Domain Coordinator, using 
> file upload, in the case where no role changes are being made for the 
> users.
> 
> A couple of choices:
> 

[snip]
The instructions seem clear enough.  I will forward to our system admin.

> I am not entirely sure option (a) will work for the jce domain, because 
> although you server is part of the LON-CAPA network it looks as though 
> access to standard web ports (80 and 443) is blocked from outside your 
> campus network.  (A side effect of that blocking is that instructors in 
> other domains cannot currently use any content published with 
> system-wide rights of use by authors in the jce domain).

Hmmmmm... I am sorry to hear about the mentioned side effect.
I guess these are security issues.
I will forward this matter as well to the IT people and see what can be done.

Many thanks
Itay

> 
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
> ________________________________________
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> Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] problems with mass-enrollment at the domain 
> level
> 
> Hi
> 
> As a domain coordinator I am failing to use the mass-enrollment 
> mechanism.
> Failure means that new students were not enrolled to the system, while 
> no error/warning was produced.
> 
> Here is a minimal mock input file; the description below applies also 
> to the real list of students.
> 
> 11106,FakeUser,FakeNameA,FakeStudentF
> 11107,FakeUser,FakeNameB,FakeStudentG
> 11108,FakeUser,FakeNameC,FakeStudentH
> 11109,FakeUser,FakeNameD,FakeStudentI
> 
> I did the following steps:
> 
> 1. As domain coordinator...
> 2. Menu >> User Management >> Upload Users List
> 3. Upload input file
> 4. Judging by the preview Lon-capa identifies the structure correctly.
> 5. Associate the columns with the correct fields, including username.
> 6. Adjust other parameters:
>     * Select Local authentication
>     * Keep default domain (our jce.ac.il)
>     * Confirm Starting Date = today
>     * Check 'no ending date'
>     * Keep selection 'No role changes'
>     * Keep *un*checked: 'Force change of existing ID' and 'Update ID in 
> user's course(s)'.
> 7. Click 'Update Users'
> 
> Results:
> 
> The system think for a few minutes and displays the following message:
> Adding/Modifying Users
> Please be patient -- checking for institutional data ... done
> Processed 0 users.
> No roles added
> 
> As mentioned before, no error message is displayed.
> 
> New users are still not enrolled as demonstrated by searching for them 
> in the system.
> 
> I would appreciate any help to resolve that issue.
> 
> Thanks in Advance.
> Itay
> 
> 
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