Currently the form for adding students to a course has a safety feature that ensures that only UIDs that match the institution suffix are added to the course. While this is valuable and avoids problems, there are cases where individual users could be added that don't match that UID (e.g., staff being added as students for testing, or grad vs undergrad students with different kinds of credentials). It would be nice to bypass the UID restriction in specific scenarios, maybe with other safeguards like requiring those to have had logged in before (e.g., to have a users record already).
Currently the form for adding students to a course has a safety feature that ensures that only UIDs that match the institution suffix are added to the course. While this is valuable and avoids problems, there are cases where individual users could be added that don't match that UID (e.g., staff being added as students for testing, or grad vs undergrad students with different kinds of credentials). It would be nice to bypass the UID restriction in specific scenarios, maybe with other safeguards like requiring those to have had logged in before (e.g., to have a users record already).