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Name Change for accounts? #168

Open hallpell opened 2 years ago

hallpell commented 2 years ago

Main impetus for this is some of our Public School classes give us inaccurate rosters, which causes student accounts to be created with incorrect names, causing issues at login time. (Could also be good for allowing name changes as desired). Our current workflow is just to create a new account with the correct name, transfer relevant data (mainly just Notes containing credentials) and abandon the old account, but if other data (projects completed, untutorials created, etc) are present on the account they will likely be lost.

We generally should catch these issues fairly early, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue to lose non-Note data associated with an account. I don't have a great sense of (a) how much better the workflow would be with renaming functionality and (b) how difficult this is to implement.