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Users

For admins: creating accounts, roles, the faculty label, resetting passwords, and banning.

The Users page

Open Users. Tabs across the top filter by role — Students, Faculty, Admins — each with a count, and a search box and New user button sit in the same row, after the search (as on Students).

The Users page: role tabs with counts, a search box, New user button, and a table of students with their role and status

Creating a user

Select New user (this reads New student or New faculty instead when you're only allowed to create one role — for example, from the Students page). Fill in:

  • Full name *
  • Email — leave it blank and the account shows "No email"; they'll only ever be notified in-app.
  • Username *
  • Password — type one, or leave it blank to generate one.
  • Role *, and, for a role a superadmin can give the faculty label, an "Also teaches (counted as faculty)" checkbox.

The New user dialog: Full name, Email, Username, Password (leave blank to generate one) and Role fields

Select Create user. The dialog then shows the password once, with a Copy button and a note — "Generated" or "As entered" — "This password won't be shown again." Give it to the person directly; select Done once you've noted it down.

A user's details

Select a name in the list to open their sheet — header shows the name and "email · @username".

The user sheet: header "Anjali Peiris — demo.notdone@example.com · @demo.notdone", Details (Full name, Email, Save details), Role, and Access (Reason, Ban user, Reset password)

  • Details — full name and email, saved with Save details.
  • Role — change it from the list of roles you're allowed to assign, then Save. See the roles table for what each role can do.

  • Teaching (where it applies) — the "Also teaches (counted as faculty)" checkbox and Save.

    Superadmins only

    Only a superadmin can set or clear the faculty label on an admin or superadmin account.

  • Access — a reason field, Ban user / Unban user, and Reset password. Banning signs the person out at once and blocks them from signing in again until they're unbanned; it also takes them out of nudges, announcements and progress indicators meanwhile.

Resetting a password

Select Reset password — from the user sheet, a user's row, or a student's own page. Type a new password or leave it blank to generate one; the person is signed out everywhere. The new password is shown once, exactly like a new account's.

The Reset password dialog: a New password field with "Leave blank to generate one", a note that they'll be signed out everywhere

Superadmins only

Only a superadmin creates or manages admin and superadmin accounts. The app always keeps at least one active superadmin — it refuses an action that would leave none.

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