🦊 Assigning Students Accounts

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It’s that time of year again! :maple_leaf: :clock1: :mortar_board:

Are you thinking about how to assign your incoming students to GitLab accounts?

  • Consider creating a custom user sign up page. You can customize it with your logo, description of the instance, and guidelines on the who and why and the how!
    Do you have custom signup page? Post it in the thread! We’d :purple_heart: to see it.

  • Consider connecting your GitLab Instance with your institution authentification system. This way, students and faculty can sign up themselves! Self-hosted GitLab allows admins to connect with LDAP or SSO/SAML.

  • Students can be assigned accounts in bulk from a class list but it requires some :scroll: scripting knowledge. Here is an example.

Check out more in our blog post linked below!

Administering your GitLab for Education License.

We hope this helps you get the fall semester off to a great start! :books: :fallen_leaf: :school:

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I just signed up for the education program using SaaS service. How do I add/approve students in my account? My students already have the free Gitlab account created using their university email address. Can I add them under my account?

My interest in signing up for the education program was so I can have the students use some of the advanced capabilities, such as fuzzying in CI/CD.

Sincerely,

Arun

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Hello @DrArunL - Welcome to the program!

Here is a blog post that explains the different options. Please feel free to post any follow-up questions here. Administering your GitLab for Education License | GitLab