If a user was added to a section but have not logged into scheduler, mentors cannot change the attendance for the student, because of a validation error when saving the object in the database through the serializer.

In particular, the following Django log is printed:

<Attendance:Failure> Could not record attendance for User <pk=24;[email protected]>, errors: {'student_name': [ErrorDetail(string='This field may not be blank.', code='blank')]}

Generally, this hasn't been an issue in the past, since student enroll themselves in sections, which requires them to have logged into scheduler. However, if a coordinator manually enrolls a student without having them login first, this creates a new user and student object without any associated name, causing this error when attempting to modify attendances.