Manage users

A person must be a registered user to be able to schedule and lead events. People can attend certain events as guest attendees.

Event Managers can manually create user accounts for users in the Cornerstone Classroom Management Server.

Before creating user accounts

Before you create a user account:

Have the user’s account information available.
Ensure that your organization has available licenses.
Know what groups to assign the new user to.
Tip: You can always edit the account later, if necessary.

Do not use these characters in the user’s login, first, middle, or last name as characters will be stripped out during user creation process:

* (asterisk)

% (percent)

, (comma)

+ (plus)

" (quote)

Different ways to create user accounts

There are different ways to create user accounts:

Table 1. Ways to create user accounts
Way to create an account	Who creates an account?	Comments
Users can self-register*	Any user	System Administrators must add a URL to any Web page to enable users to create their own accounts and log in as an active registered user.
Manually create one account at a time	Event Manager	Event Managers can create user accounts in the Management server, the Manager Users page.
Bulk upload user data*	System Administrator	System Administrators can use the AddSaba CentraUser utility to import user records using a CSV import file.
LDAP server import*	System Administrator	System Administrators can automatically generate user accounts from user information stored in your organization’s LDAP server.
2000 Login Manager (NTLM) authentication*	System Administrator	User accounts can be automatically added as a result of users authenticating with Windows NT/2000.
Via integration with Cornerstone Saba*	Saba Administrator	User accounts are managed via Cornerstone Saba.

Note: * User accounts created with these methods do not overwrite existing users with the same login name and can assign only the basic user privileges to the user.

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