[Building Sakai] Promoting non-provided users to being provided

[Stephen Marquard]

Hi all,

We had a query today which was basically "I want to see which students in the course site are not registered for the course".

In the course in question, a number of students were added before the official registrations came through, so they started out non-provided, but subsequently became officially registered.

However, in Site Info, those users don't have the course code showing up in the 'Enrolled' column because they are non-provided users. If you delete them, they come back as provided users.

So currently there's no good way to answer the question.

It seems to me it might be useful to have non-provided users get promoted to provided users when the realm is updated, if their provided role is the same as their non-provided role.

This would carry the risk that a manually added student could find themselves dropped from the site if they registered for a course and then dropped it, but that seems more of an edge case compared to the more common query above.

Any views?

Regards
Stephen




Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
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