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If you want to learn the basics on how to connect to UMRA with its COM object, please see my original post on “Basics of UMRA COM”.

UMRA – Teacher Bulk Student Management

To read about the other options in the Teacher Management Portal, please see this blog post http://umratips.blogspot.com/2009/08/umra-teacher-file-distribution.html

Now in addition to the Web Based Teacher File Distribution system, our client also wanted to us to build in functions to allow for the Teachers to manage the students on their current active rosters. Now this poses another yet another layer of complexity, not only will we be managing the distribution of files within this UMRA based portal, but now we need to allow for some “admin” type active directory functions through this portal. Some of the features that the client wanted, were, Deleting Profiles, Repair Home/Profile Permissions, Unlock Account, and Change Password. Now, unlink the Admin Portal, these tasks are based on a one by one basis, and not like a one some or many like the Admin Portal. So below is a quick screen shot of just this section, and I will go over what each of the option does in more details.




Delete Profile -
This will take the Profile Path of the Student, and UMRA delete files within it. It will take this information directly from Active Directory.

Repair Home/Profile Permissions -
This function takes both the home profile attribute, and the profile path attribute in Active Directory and UMRA connects to multiple data servers and student information systems and makes sure the student has the correct permissions, to active teacher rosters. This is a great tool to have, since it use to take the client 15 minutes, to go through all of the folders, and correct permissions, now the Teacher can fix these within seconds.

Unlock Account -
This one is straight forward, this one unlocks the Active Directory Account if it locked. If the account is locked, the column “Locked” will say “locked”.

Change Password -
This pops up another screen where the teacher can change the students password.

Now don’t forget that each and every one of these functions are being handled by UMRA in the background, with scripts that were designed specifically for the client. So the client can go back anytime, and modify how a specific action takes place. But also, don’t forget that every action is also being recorded and audited to a SQL database, so you have a complete audit history of actions from within the portal. So there you have it, other function in the Teachers Portal. And as you can see, the limits are endless with you have UMRA as your back end logic tool.