Administrator documentation
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The Administrator is responsible for the system parameterization, to build the organisation of the courses, to activate new users, to validate the assignment of lessons to users and in general to administer the platform.
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[edit] Basic system parameterization
The first duty of the administrator is to adapt the system to the needs of his organization/company. Below is a small list of the thinks he can parameterize:
- Installation logo
- Allowed IP addresses from where the system can be accessed
- LDAP support (if needed)
- System registration issues. Can student enroll automatically? Should be able to register themselves?
- The default system language and support for more than one language
- External email account
 The main administrator page |
[edit] Advanced system parameterization
There are also some advanced functions for the system parametrization available to the administrator.
- Visual theme management (CSS)
- Languages management
- User profile customization
[edit] Lessons/Courses management
The Administrator is responsible for creating new lessons, directions and courses. He is also responsible for assigning lessons to users and tracking user requests to enter the system and be given new lessons. For more on course management go to the Lessons/Courses management page.
[edit] Categories management
Categories are used to organize our lessons and courses in different levels.Each category can have as many subcategories as we need to use. All lessons and courses have to belong to a category.Therefore, the management of the categories is crucial for the educational procedure.
In order to create a new category, the administrator clicks on the relevant function from his main menu.
 Categories function |
We type a category name and then we have to define whether it is going to be a father category or if it is going to be a subcategory.
 New Category |
As a next step, we are able to assign lessons to the new category.
 Assigning lessons to a category |
[edit] User management
The administrator can create new users of any type and assign lessons or courses to them. He can also create new types of users with more or less privilages. For more on user management check the User management page.
[edit] Groups management
User groups can aggregate users according to arbitrarily defined, common characteristics.
eFront Educational and eFront Enterpise extend the usage of groups to support mapping between groups and lessons and the usage of unique group-keys for self-registration. You can find more information concerning the User Groups by following this link Groups management .
[edit] Communicate
The system offers several communication tools. Some of them can be administrated and not only used by the administrator, such as the forum and the chat tools.
The communication tools of eFront are:
- System announcements (Administrator is the only person able to add announcements concerning the hole system and all of its users.)
- Messages/eMail
- Forum
- Chat
- Calendar
You can find more information about the usage of the communication tool by visiting this page Quick guide , at the relevant chapter.
[edit] Modules
Modules are additional components that extent eFront's functionality. Several modules are already bundled with the main eFront's installation (e.g, Forum, Surveys etc). More modules can be installed through the module interface that is available to the administrator. For more check the Modules documentation.
[edit] Reports
Administrator can produce a wide range of reports regarding the system. These include:
- User report
- Lesson report
- User-Lesson condition report
- Traffic report (for a specific period)
- Most active users and most active lessons
For more on reports check the Reports page
[edit] External pages
External pages allow you to customize the front-screen of your local eFront installation via simple interconnected pages. Here is how it works.
- You create one ore more html pages using the internal WYSIWYG editors
- You interconnect the pages using the editor in any way you prefer
- You add a link to the login screen of eFront from where people can enter the main system
- You select one of your pages as the main screen of your local installation
[edit] Tools
- Import/Export users
- Sign out a locked user
- Recreate search index
- System status
- User types management
- Language management
- Visual style (CSS) management
- System backup/restore
- Logo management
