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Can you change a student's username?

Can you change a student's username?

by Kelly Cline -
Number of replies: 1
Is there any way to change a student's username after the course has started? I tried looking under the Classlist Editor but that doesn't seem to be an option.

--Kelly Cline
In reply to Kelly Cline

Re: Can you change a student's username?

by Michael Gage -
Unfortunately you can't -- because the username is used as the primary id in the database.

The best you can do is to create a new user (and then set the status of the first one to drop). That will insure that only the new username is in use and that any work with the old username stays around -- but you will have to combine the grades from the "two users" by hand.

-- Mike