Make the ADD STUDENT form from Observer Profile a Feature Option

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We have disabled self registration under the authentication tab in order to keep parents from manually creating their user and from linking themselves to students. We have made tireless efforts in our SIS imports to keep this control, yet having the "Add Student" form under the Users > Observing tab is overriding our process to keep this control out of observers’s hands. 

Adding this as an “on / off” button in the feature options allows those that would like to enable this that ability and those of us who don’t, to be able to turn it off.

This was a recent change to the Observer profile:

How do I link a student to my user account as an observer? 

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