Adding permission to create contributor's accounts to Teachers

[hannahackermans]

It seems that people with teachers accounts can only create groups and add existing contributors to their group. They cannot create new contributor's accounts for their students, which is needed when they want to do a KB workshop with their students.

Can we bring back this functionality for teachers?

(I'll add screenshots when the KB is back online)

[steinmb]

Teachers have never had the site wide administrate user permission. It is very wide and have security risks, allowing them to admin/add/delete/settings for any user including admin.

That aside. I see the use case and we should try and address this. https://www.drupal.org/project/administerusersbyrole is a example on a module that could perhaps work.

[elmcip]

One elegant solution might be to allow teachers to submit a table of names and emails that could be approved by an administrator and one-click auto-load into the system?

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On Dec 4, 2018, at 12:43 AM, Stein Magne Bjørklund notifications@github.com wrote:

Teachers have never had the site wide administrate user permission. It is very wide and have security risks, allowing them to admin/add/delete/settings for any user including admin.

That aside. I see the use case and we should try and address this. https://www.drupal.org/project/administerusersbyrole https://www.drupal.org/project/administerusersbyrole is a example on a module that could perhaps work.

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[hannahackermans]

I like Scott's idea. And we could add a field to it for the teacher to briefly explain their plans for using the kb for the course, so we can prevent problems if necessary.

[steinmb]

And we could add a field to it for the teacher to briefly explain their plans for using the kb for the course, so we can prevent problems if necessary.

Could you expand a little on this?

[hannahackermans]

What I was thinking of is that, for example, if teachers say something like ‘my class is going to learn to document Afternoon, A Story’, we can tell them not to create lots of duplicate records.