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Administration introduction

The administrator role

Every organisation must appoint people with the responsibility for maintaining structure, user accounts and bulletin boards in itslearning. These people are called administrators. If this responsibility is divided between several people, it may be practical to divide the total responsibility into various responsibility areas (see below). In small organisations, it is often practical that one person takes care of all administration tasks. In that case, an alternate should be prepared to assume the administrator role in case of sickness or other absence. All administrators have an Admin tab in the top menu:

Different administrator roles

The classification below is not an absolute rule, but suggests how your organisation can group the tasks of the administrator into different administration types.

System administrator

Administrator with responsibility for users, hierarchy and communities

Administrator with responsibility for news and information

System administrator

The system administrator has superior responsibility for the structure of the site. It is recommended that the user account of the system administrator is used exclusively to change settings and get information that applies to the site as a whole.

If the system administrator also works as a teacher, all work with courses and educational activity should be done with another user account.

To keep the roles separated, the platform is delivered with a default setting preventing the system administrator from working with courses. The interface for system administrators only allows them to work with the administration of itslearning.

Administrator

Administrator rights are provided by the system administrator. This means that the system administrator and administrator cannot be the same person, but that the administrator profile is created based on the tasks the administrator is supposed to do. See Different administrator roles above. An administrator basically has two areas of responsibility:

How-tos

ClosedAdding an administrator
ClosedAssigning administrator rights to an existing user

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