[Building Sakai] Keeping access to graduated student's data

[Katherine Faella]

We are looking for a way to allow faculty to keep access to student data 
from graduating students. Because we provision our users through our 
ldap server, when they graduate and are removed from the ldap server, a 
faculty member looking back at a quiz or assignment or in the gradebook, 
will have no data for students no longer active.

We are looking for suggestions and ideas on how other schools are 
dealing with this. If you keep graduated students in the ldap, do you 
see any performance issues as the ldap database grows? How large is your 
ldap database (i.e., number of students)? Is there another way of 
keeping students around such as adding their details permanently to the 
Sakai database? What are the performance and maintenance issues with this?

Any suggestions, cautions or other information gratefully accepted.

Thanks,
Kathy Faella
University of Rhode Island

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Katherine Faella                        tel: (401) 874-4469
Sr. Technical Programmer                kmf at uri.edu
University of Rhode Island
University Computing Systems(UCS)
210 Flagg Road
Kingston, Rhode Island  02881