Don't Rely On Email Addresses
Click here to read our blog post about why email addresses aren't a good way to match users.
In short, we recommend the following:
- DON'T use email addresses to identify a user. Most LMS and SIS systems do not verify email addresses for an account. This means you can't trust that whoever is logging in really owns the email address associated with their Person.
- DO use
ids to identify a user. Even if a Person's email address changes, their Edlinkidwon't change. The Edlinkidis tied to their account within the source data provider.