Texas A&M University - Infrastructure Services

Scoped Course Affiliations (eduCourseMember)

Definition: Role of account owner in a specific current semester course offering.

Scoped course affiliations are provided only for enrolled students, instructors, and teaching assistants affiliated with courses taught at TAMU-CS, TAMU-GV, or TAMU-QT.

The 'current semester' used to set and clear information in the TAMU Enterprise Directory increments the Monday after graduation.
Attribute Name: 'eduCourseMember'
OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.6.1.2
URN: urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.6.1.2
Object Class: eduCourse
Required: no
Multiple Values: Multi-valued
Format: Directory String
The values consist of a left and right component separated by an "@" sign. The left component is one of the IMS roleTypes. The right component is the URN for the course offering.
Controlled Vocabulary: Left component (IMS Group Membership roleTypes):
Learner SIMS enrolled student role
Instructor SIMS instructor of record role
TeachingAssistant SIMS teaching assistant role
ContentDeveloper not populated
Administrator not populated
Manager not populated
Mentor not used
Member not used

Right component (course offering URN):
TAMU course offering URNs are registered in the urn:mace:tamu.edu:crs namespace.
For current values, see http://infrastructure.tamu.edu/namespaces/urn-crs.html
Source: If present in SIMS roster feed as an enrolled student for a current semester's course => Learner@courseOfferingURN
If present in SIMS roster feed as an instructor of record for a current semester's course => Instructor@courseOfferingURN
If present in SIMS roster feed as a teaching assistant for a current semester's course => TeachingAssistant@courseOfferingURN
Indexing: Presence (pres): Improves searches for entries that contain the indexed attribute.
Equality (eq): Improves searches for entries that contain an attribute that is set to a specific value.
Search Syntax: EQUALITY caseExactMatch
Access: Account owner has read access. Authenticated and nonauthenticated (anonymous) users have no access.
Usage: Shibboleth-enabled applications (WebAssign, etc.)
Example(s): Instructor@urn:mace:tamu.edu:crs:cs:2008:fall:PHYS218509