[Using Sakai] Sakai 2.6.x, LDAP and withdrawing studentry -- best practices?

[will at serensoft.com]

Interesting -- so you don't have Sakai ping your LDAP server, you just
create Sakai users for all your LDAP users.

What kind of issues do you have when a student withdraws? You could zap the
LDAP entry and also change the Sakai password, then have all the instructors
remove or inactivate the student...

Is that how it works? (I can see IT grinding their teeth at having to update
two systems instead of just one...)


On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Feliz Gouveia <fribeiro at ufp.edu.pt> wrote:

>
> Will,
>
> We create a Sakai account for each ldap account and synchronize
> periodically. As users get created in Sakai, they always show up - we found
> no problems with this approach. The only requirement is that we get the
> information to create the accounts from our SIS.
> Nuno can send you the details.
>
> Feliz
>
>
> On 2 February 2010 19:24, will at serensoft.com <will at serensoft.com> wrote:
>
>> Sent this to DEV list, should have sent it here :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Short version:
>>
>> Are there any "best Sakai practices" when it comes to withdrawing
>> LDAP-authenticated students?
>>
>>
>> Long version:
>>
>> We've got Sakai 2.6.x hooked up to an LDAP server. Student 'bob' gets
>> authenticated via LDAP to Sakai, logs in, takes tests and quizzes, turns in
>> assignments... for a few weeks.
>>
>> Then 'bob' quits school.
>>
>> Other students continue, taking more tests, more assignments.
>>
>> The IT folks notice that just by disabling the LDAP entry, Sakai no longer
>> shows that student in "Site Info" or the "Gradebook". One fell swoop, all
>> taken-care-of. All the data inside Sakai, including sakai_site_user.*,
>> remains as it was. But now, worksite maintainers can't find 'bob' listed to
>> 'inactivate' or 'remove' him from their worksites.
>>
>> Is the best idea to re-activate the LDAP account, have all worksites
>> 'deactivate' (or remove?) the student, and then turn the LDAP entry off
>> again?
>>
>> --
>> will trillich
>> "The ancestor of every action is a thought" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
>>
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will trillich
"The ancestor of every action is a thought" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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