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

[Itay]

Stuart,

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, at 17:54, Raeburn, Stuart wrote:
> Itay,
> 
> >
> > Please advise if this makes sense technically.
> >
> 
> Are these all new users or are you looking to update information for 
> existing users (and if so, what information are you looking to update)?
>

A mixture of existing and new users.
I want to enroll new users.
I do not try to update information for existing users.
They are part of the input because the student registration office is ignorant of enrollment to lon-capa, so they can provide me only with a list of all the students in the college.

> Have you tried switching a session to testdrive.loncapa.net, selecting 
> your DC role in the jce domain, and used: Main Menu > "Create users or 
> modify the roles and privileges of users" > "Upload a File of Users"
> and uploaded a file containing just one or two users, (as a test) to 
> see if option (a) in my previous response would address your need?
> 

I misunderstood the utility of the testdrive, so I tried (a) only now following this message.
I was able to access the testdrive.
However, after uploading a users sample  file, and pressing 'upload users' button, I am prompted to supply initial password.
This implied internal authentication ; right?
As our production system does not use internal authentication I was not sure if I should continue.

Thanks
Itay

> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
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> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] problems with mass-enrollment at the 
> domain level
> 
> Hi Stuart and list members,
> 
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, at 18:15, Itay wrote:
> 
> I guess there is another choice, a hack that would not require 
> modifying the system (and intervention of the IT people):
> 
> 1. Create a dummy course (college bureaucracy would not care).
> 2. Log-in as the course coordinator.
> 3. Enroll all the students for the course.
>    (Assuming it is possible to enroll ~2400 students for a course.)
> 4. After confirming enrollment: block access to the course for all students.
> 
> Please advise if this makes sense technically.
> 
> Thank you!
> Itay
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