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- Show appropriate user management help for the user's context (i.e., domain,
  author or course), and user's permissions (i.e., edit or view privilege).

    1: \label{Domain_Create_Users}
    2: 
    3: Users in a domain with rights to create users can make changes to multiple users by uploading
    4: a file containing comma-separated value data (or similar).  The changes that can be made include
    5: bulk changes to authentication type, or passwords for internally authenticated users, as well as
    6: changing student/employee IDs or assigning domain roles or course roles. The one required column
    7: in the csv (or similar) data file is username.
    8: 
    9: \begin{enumerate}
   10: 
   11: \item Select \textbf{Main Menu} and then select \includegraphics[width=0.03\paperwidth]{cprv}
   12: \textbf{Create users or modify the roles and privileges of users}.
   13: \item Select \includegraphics[width=0.03\paperwidth]{uplusr} \textbf{ Upload a File of Users}
   14: in the ``Multiple Users'' box on the User Management page.
   15: \item Click the \fbox{Choose File} button to locate the file on your machine.
   16: \item Select the appropriate file type from the drop-down menu
   17: (usually \textbf{CSV spreadsheet}).  To see how to
   18: generate a CSV file, refer to \ref{Course_Convert_To_CSV}.
   19: \item Click \fbox{Next}
   20: 
   21: \vspace{20pt}
   22: 
   23: \item The next screen allows you to associate the uploaded spreadsheet's columns
   24:    with the necessary student fields, such as: \textbf{Last Name}, \textbf{First Name},
   25:    etc.  Use the drop-down menus to make an
   26:    association for each of the spreadsheet's columns.
   27: 
   28: NOTE: If you wish to associate a particular column to more than one field
   29:       (if, for example, you wish to make the students' initial passwords the
   30:       same as their student/employee id), click the \fbox{Reverse
   31:       Association} button.  Then you can assign columns of the spreadsheet to more
   32:       than one field. You can also set the login type, the start/end dates for
   33:    the students from this page.
   34: 
   35: \item Once you have the column assignments and defaults set, click \fbox{Update Users}
   36: 
   37: \end{enumerate}
   38: 
   39: \vspace{20pt}