# Manually activate user via "Studio administration" **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutor Help\ **Tags:** tutor\ **Created:** [January 30, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/manually-activate-user-via-studio-administration/14870 "2025-01-30T07:31:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![joel.edwards](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/joel.edwards/32/3193_2.png) [@joel.edwards](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/joel.edwards)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/manually-activate-user-via-studio-administration/14870/4 "2025-01-31T07:31:32Z")
I created a little script here to bulk-add users if you want to try that 🙂 > [@How to bulk add users (teachers & students) to Open edX](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-bulk-add-users-teachers-students-to-open-edx/11879/2): > > there’s a few ways to do it, you could use the API if you’re familiar with using API access. You can also get users to self register and then you go edit users staff/superuser status. The way I would do it (I’m not implying that this is the best way to do it, just a method I came up with) is with a for loop to loop through a list of users to add and have the loop run this for each user: tutor local createuser --staff --superuser \ \ -p \ --staff will be for teachers and -… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/manually-activate-user-via-studio-administration/14870)._