Moodle - renaming users in AD creates a seperate account in Moodle

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Originally Posted by SYNACK

This is why we just use first names unless there is more than one of the same for teachers as they have this nasty habit of getting married, changing their names and screaching about their email addresses and logons the very next day. Much easier to just use first names as they hardly ever change.

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Our school seems to have a habit of employing people with the same first name! I think i would go down the route of numbers as usernames.

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Originally Posted by FN-GM

Our school seems to have a habit of employing people with the same first name! I think i would go down the route of numbers as usernames.

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Who gets 666 :)

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Originally Posted by SYNACK

Who gets 666 :)

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Oh i have someone in mind!!

I think i might give myself 007 ;)

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Originally Posted by SYNACK

Who gets 666 :)

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Thats our VLAN ID for BYOD!

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Originally Posted by CyberNerd

Thats our VLAN ID for BYOD!

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Classic :)

What application do you use to create your accounts from SIMS.net? If you could add the user's local id (admission number for students) from SIMS to a active directory field you could then have a custom plugin written that extends the moodle ldap plugin to search for this id before creating a new account. If it finds the id it can rename the moodle account.

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Originally Posted by penfold_99

What application do you use to create your accounts from SIMS.net? If you could add the user's local id (admission number for students) from SIMS to a active directory field you could then have a custom plugin written that extends the moodle ldap plugin to search for this id before creating a new account. If it finds the id it can rename the moodle account.

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Getting that populated in AD shouldn't be a problem. Where would i get the app written please?

Have dropped you a PM.