Add users to institution without invite

[Mathew Sorgi]

In Mahara 1.4, you have the option to invite users to join an institution. It would be good if the ability to just add users straight to an institution was added, therefore bypassing the invite user, then waiting for them to accept process. Also showing more than the first 100 results in the institution members search box would be useful.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Hi Mathew,

If you are a site admin, you can add users to an institution circumventing the invitation process, cf. http://manual.mahara.org/en/latest/site_admin/institutions.html#members Alternatively, if you only want to add one person to an institution, you can do so on the accounts page, cf. http://manual.mahara.org/en/latest/site_admin/users.html#user-account-settings

In general, I think it is by design that institution admins cannot add users in bulk as they should be able to control which institution they want to join. However, in Mahara 1.5, where we have implemented a few features for Mahara sites that run multiple institutions and thus use Mahara in an educational setting, e.g. many schools using it, there is a feature where you as admin can add users without inviting them first, cf. http://manual.mahara.org/en/moving_accounts/site_administration/institution_members.html#people-who-have-left-a-given-institution

Cheers
Kristina

[Mathew Sorgi (v-mathew)]

Hi Kristina,
I have tried to add users directly to an institution as per your first link, but the option to add them is only allowed for users who have requested memebership. If the user is has not requested memebership, the only option i have is to invite them?

Regards,
Mathew

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Mathew: you're right: in 1.4 that's not possible. However, that feature has been added to the upcoming Mahara 1.5.

Cheers,
Francois

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Hello Mathew,

Sorry that I had forgotten to write that this is a 1.5 feature.

Cheers
Kristina

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Francois, as there were two distinct questions, are you then tackling only the display of 100 users one?

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Good point, I missed that part.

Can one of you create a new bug for the "display more than 100 users" issue?

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

I put the "display more than 100 users" on bug #945960.

[Melissa Draper (melissa)]

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