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[Bug 804609] Re: Staff should not see the username

 

Wouldn't it then be better to give staff the opportunity to see the
email address? A username of "tinyhorse" doesn't provide a staff member
any valuable information and it would be better to see that Janet Mason
is janet.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and not jmason@griffith.school

I guess, staff sees the real name and username most of the time in
Mahara, but not on the profile page where you would also expect it.

Having a user's identification on a page that you see as staff member
three times (display name, real name and username) is a bit too much I
think. If all names should be present, at least the real name and
username could be in a smaller font so that the focus is more directed
to the page content and not to figuring out why three different or
potentially very similar names are displayed.

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Title:
  Staff should not see the username

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  Institution and site staff should only see the real name and the
  display name, but not the username, I think. They are not
  administering the institution. This should be reserved to institution
  and site admins. These see all three names: real, display, username.

  The behavior of what a site staff member can see is not consistent: On
  a user's profile page he only sees the display name, but in the online
  user sidebar he sees the real, display and username.

  The institution staff either only sees the display name or he also
  sees the real name (with the display name in parentheses). The latter
  option would be beneficial to sites with multiple institutions where
  an institution decides to only have the first name of their students
  as display names so that their privacy is protected from non-
  institution members. If the staff would still be seeing the real name,
  it would be easier for them to find their students.

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