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Organizing users for a School System
Hello everyone,
I am planning to build a backend for an app that can be used in schools. The school admin creates an ordinary account via OAuth or e-mail login. This admin can then create teacher users. The idea is that teachers then get a code with which they can log in (e.g. 123-456-789), i.e. not by email and password. The teachers in turn can create classes to which they can add student users. The students can log in with a code just like the teachers, i.e. again without email and password.
Now my specific questions:
- What is the correct way to implement something like this in Appwrite, in terms of authentication?
- Is it possible to create users without email and password?
- If not, is it a solution to create dummy email addresses for teachers and students, e.g. 123-456-789@myApp.com and then use these as IDs?
- What are classes: teams or labels?
- How do I differentiate between admin, teacher or student permissions? Are labels the right way to go here?
I use the Rest API to communicate with the backend and .NET as the server platform.
I am very grateful for any help (also in parts)!
TL;DR
Developers want to organize a school app backend with different user types (admin, teacher, student). They are using Appwrite and want to know:
- How to implement authentication without email and password
- Using dummy email addresses for identification
- Whether to use teams or labels for classes
- Assigning admin, teacher, and student permissions using labels
Possible solution:
- Utilize custom authentication implementation in Appwrite to generate code-based logins for teachers and students
- Create dummy email addresses as IDs if necessary
- Use teams for classes and labels for permissions to differentiate user types. 