This is not recommended to be done due to the following reasons:
- Guest Student (Observer) role is different permission that the Student role. Observers have limited permissions that allow them to see what is going on in a course, but will not be able to participate in assignments. For more info on Observer role, please refer to this page.
- Student enrolment is done in EduRec for official academic courses. When the sync completes the next day, the student will be added automatically in the course as "Student".
Hence, if the student was added manually to the course as "Guest Student", the student will have 2 roles shown "Student" and "Observer" eventually which the instructor will need to remove the "Observer" manually for each student one-by-one:
- Go to Courses > Click Course Name
- Go to People and Search Student Name
- Click the corresponding 3 dots next to the student's name and select User Details
- Under Membership, click Delete beside the Enrolled as: Guest Student membership.