h1. Membership
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Each class website has a Membership page. If the class has sections, each section also has its own Membership page. A Membership page displays a list of the class members: students on the Official Class List, students from the Participants user group, and guests. The Membership page for the class lists all class members; the Membership page for a section lists only the section's members. Instructors and students have access to the Membership page; guests do not.

h6. The Official Class List

For academic class websites, the Official Class List is created automatically from the MITSIS database and cannot be edited by staff. Class websites use preregistration data from the Registrar's office to populate the list about a week before the start of classes. Each night, the list is refreshed with the day's adds and drops. By the end of the first full week of classes at the latest, the preregistration list is replaced with the Registrar's official class list, which is also updated nightly.

Because the registration information is not fully available at the start of the semester, instructors or TAs can grant access to students not yet on the Official Class List list by adding them to the Participants group. 

h6. Instructors can use the Membership page to:
  * Click the Edit Participants tab to add or remove students from the class list.
  * Block access by individual students who intend to drop the class.
  * Click the Access Control tab to add and remove users from user groups.
  * Click the Manage Sections tab to add, edit, and remove sections and to assign students to sections.
  * Click the Email Members tab to send an email to class members or section members.
  * Click a member's email address to send an email to just that individual. 

{bgcolor:#E6E6FA}h3. Managing the Membership List {bgcolor}
* [Managing the Membership List]
* [Student / Instructor View of the Membership Page|Managing the Membership List#Student / Instructor View of the Membership Page]
* [Adding non-MIT users to the Membership page|Managing the Membership List#Adding non-MIT users to the Membership page]
* [Assigning Students to Sections|Managing the Membership List#Assigning Students to Sections]
* [Assign Multiple Students to Sections|Managing the Membership List#Assign Multiple Students to Sections]
* [Automatically Assign Students to Sections based on Pre-Registration Data|Managing the Membership List#Automatically Assign Students to Sections based on Pre-Registration Data]
* [Blocking Enrolled Students Who Intend to Drop a Class|Managing the Membership List#Blocking Enrolled Students Who Intend to Drop a Class]

{bgcolor:#E6E6FA}h3. User Groups and Permissions {bgcolor}
* [User Groups and Permissions]
* [Access Control|User Groups and Permissions#Access Control]
* [Overview of User Groups|User Groups and Permissions#Overview of User Groups]
* [Adding Users to a Group|User Groups and Permissions#Adding Users to a Group]
* [Removing Users from a Group|User Groups and Permissions#Removing Users from a Group]
* [Access Control|User Groups and Permissions#Access Control]