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Subject:    [LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom /html/adm/help/tex Domain_Configuration_Self_Creation.tex
From:       raeburn <raeburn () source ! lon-capa ! org>
Date:       2017-03-30 2:12:21
Message-ID: cvsraeburn1490839941 () cvsserver
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raeburn		Thu Mar 30 02:12:21 2017 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /loncom/html/adm/help/tex	Domain_Configuration_Self_Creation.tex 
  Log:
  - Document how to acquire a user's self-reported institutional status from
    a course request. 
  
  
Index: loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Self_Creation.tex
diff -u loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Self_Creation.tex:1.3 \
                loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Self_Creation.tex:1.4
--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Self_Creation.tex:1.3	Sat Aug 20 \
                17:48:11 2016
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Self_Creation.tex	Thu Mar 30 \
02:12:21 2017 @@ -38,17 +38,25 @@
 Self-created accounts with an e-mail address as username can be set to be queued for \
approval   or created automatically. Institutional status types can be set to be \
self-reported for e-mail  type usernames -- set in the ``Default \
                authentication/language/timezone/portal/types'' area -- 
-and processing (queued or automated) can be set, based on status.
+and processing (queued or automated) can be set, based on status.  Note: \
self-reported status +is collected from the query string in the original call to \
/adm/createaccount, from the type +item (e.g., /adm/createaccount?type=student).  One \
way to gather this data would be to disable +display of the ``New User?'' link on the \
log-in page, but instead create a separate portal page +(e.g., replace the default \
/home/httpd/html/index.html) which would prompt new users to push a +different \
button, depending on whether they were a student or an instructor, with the \
corresponding +actions pointing at /adm/createaccount?type=$<$status type$>$, with \
$<$status type$>$ replaced with +student or instructor.
 
 User information (in addition to e-mail address and password) can be set to be \
required, optional  or not requested.
 
 A Captcha mechanism can be used to validate that the user requesting a self-created \
account is  a person, not a script.  There are two types of CAPTCHA to choose from -- \
                the ``original'' CAPTCHA, 
-which uses a self-contained perl module included with the LONCAPA prerequisites, or \
ReCAPTCHA, +which uses a self-contained perl module included with the LONCAPA \
prerequisites,   or ReCAPTCHA, which uses an external web service -- \
https://google.com/recaptcha --  and requires you to create an account and generate \
public and private keys which will be entered  in the LON-CAPA domain configuration \
form.  If you have more than one server in your domain,   you should request \
                ``global'' keys on the google.com/recaptcha site, as the same keys \
                will be
-used by the Account creation form's ReCAPTCHA on all servers in your domain.
+used by the Account creation form's ReCAPTCHA on all servers in your domain. If \
using ReCAPTCHA, you +can indicate whether version 1 or 2 should be used.
 


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