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7: Mnagaing Users
In response to 1 08/16/06 01:12 AM
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I am a teacher librarian in a large high school (1100 students). We have just completed a major refurbishment where the learning areas have been designed to encourage students to work in groups, sharing one PC between 3 students. LAMS looks like it will be really useful in this context. I am still experimenting with LAMS before promoting it with staff and I was wondering what approaches are being used for managing student accounts. :- Do you load individual students into the system
How do you cope with groups sharing a PC?

Hoping you can ease the learning curve.
Greg Jones

PS I think that the manual could be a bit clearer in explaining Roles and Rights. I used the template to load in about 200 year eight students. I thought I had the right settings but when I tried to create a class couldn't find any students. Further investigation showed that I have to change their rights to learner - a lengthy process.

Posted by Greg Jones

10: Re: Mnagaing Users
In response to 7 08/21/06 08:28 PM
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Hi Greg,

I think that using the template to load students is in fact the best option. Something must have gone wrong when you set them to be learners. I've tested the template and it seemed to be working ok for me (although I only added 4 users, not 200!).

On the template under "roles" you can set the students to be learner... and teachers to be author|staff|learner etc. When you upload the excel file into your organisation, it should then automatically assign the correct roles (rights) to the users.

You can use the same template to create your class, once the students have been loaded into your organisation. You modify the template to have only those students you wish to include and import again. It will then add those pupils to the class.

I don't use admin very often, so if anyone else is reading this and wishes to disagree, please go ahead!

Getting the template to work for you will be by far the easiest way to do things, so don't get put off by your bad experience.

In regards to sharing: That's a good question. I would recommend that you still assign each student their own identity - and they can take it in turns for who logs in for that particular lesson. That means that teachers can still use LAMS for homework or research activities for the times when the pupils are not in the group learning areas.

I hope that was helpful,
Bronwen

Posted by Bronwen Dalziel

11: Re: Re: Mnagaing Users
In response to 10 08/23/06 01:40 AM
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1. Template. Thanks - I didn't realise that you could use it for creating classes
2. Grouping. Having one student to log on for the group makes sense. I assume the same student would have to log on for all sessions related to a particular sequence.

Looking forward to Ver 2

Posted by Greg Jones

12: Re: Re: Re: Mnagaing Users
In response to 11 08/23/06 06:38 PM
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Yes, the same student would have to log on for all sessions, if it was the same sequence... otherwise they would need to begin from scratch.

The bonus of them all having their own id means that they can still access it from home if they want to look at any of the resources that they have gathered over lesson - for example, if groups of students have added websites or documents to the share resources page, then the individual can use these for an assignment.

Posted by Bronwen Dalziel

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