Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: How many separate logins should a LAMS learner have? Why not one?

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Chris,

The best thing you can do is for students to have one and only one login to LAMS irrespectively from the number of semesters, course they are at the institution.

Usually students have a unique studentid that you can use when creating their accounts.

Once their accounts are created in LAMS (whether manually or using the spreadsheet, then when you create a course, you can search for these students and add them to any course. See Group Management --> Manage Groups --> Select your course --> Manage Users --> Add/Remove Users.

The Add/Remove Users page has a very neat search function to find students and add them to a course.

Now, if you want teachers to do this searching thru all the
users in the system to add them to their course, remember that you need to allow these permissions when you created the course:

* Group Administrators can add new users
* Group Administrators can browse all users in the system

If you enable the "Group Administrators can add new users", then they the group/course administrators can manually create users from scratch.

If the "Group Administrators can browse all users in the system" is on, then when they search thru users, they'll be able to see all the users available system-wide.


Does that make sense?

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Chris Alexander

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Thanks Ernie

But doesn't this method have one major flaw: I have students that have concurrent courses and some students want to have permanent access to certain course materials or sequences throughout their studies.

Moreover the administrator side of things may lead to complications if students are added/removed individually. This may be the case as some semesters/courses/electives are longer than others, and some students in some courses complete courses at different rates.

I currently use the unique sudent ID + Course Code + a letter for semester + year for user name
And a 1234 password which the student changes later.

I therefore stand by my suggestion that multiple subaccounts will provide a user-friendly simplification and assist widescale implementation.

Regards

Chris

Posted by Chris Alexander

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Continuing with the "reply-all-postings-pending" saga

> But doesn't this method have one major flaw: I have students that have concurrent courses and some students want
> to have permanent access to certain course materials or sequences throughout their studies.

Well, that's fine. If they want to have access to old courses, all you've got to do is archive the course and they will still have access to their old courses materials.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione