removing people from a project

[Robert Sorensen]

Hi,

I apologize if this question has been asked before. I searched existing posts and couldn't find an answer, so I'll ask the question. I use iNaturalist as the basis of a project for my students in an upper-level university class. Students upload their observations to a private project in order to build a database of species that are observed at a nature reserve in our community. I want to keep a long-term database of sightings of animals at this park.

My question is: can I remove former students from the project and still have their sighting/observations be saved within the project? Doing so would make my work cataloguing observations of current students easier by not having to sort through the names of students from previous years. I'm guessing that when I remove a student from the project, the project will lose its record of that student's observations, but I could be wrong. I don't want to risk losing observations, so I haven't tried removing any students.

Thanks,

Bob

[Scott Loarie]

If you have a traditional project and you remove a project member
there observations will also be removed from the project. The only way
to have a member leave a traditional project but keep there
observations around is to have them leave the project and check either
of the options other than "Remove all your observations from this
project" when they do so.

Have you considered instead using the new 'collection style projects'?
They allow you to select the users's who's observations you want to tally, e.g.:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/southwest-texas-inat-a-thon
tallies observations made by tiwane sambiology alisonnorthup
nanofishology etc. made between April 4 and April 8 2018

You could make a project where you add/remove users based on whether
they're currently enrolled to tally the current class, and another
project where you only add users to tally everyone who's been
involved.

Or you could even make a separate project for each class and put them
all under a single umbrella to compare across classes e.g.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2018

you can read more about collection and umbrella projects here
https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/15450-announcing-changes-to-projects-on-inaturalist

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