Getting started with ACADEMIA 2010 | Portal Administrator
1. Portal Administrator
Your Academia account comes with an Administrator email and password. One of the first things to do after your first login as Portal Administrator is to change your password to something more personal (anything less likely to be forgotten), as well as to update whatever necessary personal details using the Edit Login Profile link under the Login Menu.
1.1 Administrator Control Panel
The Administrator Control Panel enables you to customize and edit Academia configuration settings. Depending on your preferences and the amount of information you supplied in your order, some of the fields may be pre-customised for you, otherwise they would contain the default place holders.
The first and most important step in customizing a fresh installation of Academia is updating the configuration files.
1.) Click on the ‘Admin Default Page‘ under the Admin Menu and
2.) Look for the ‘Edit system configuration‘ link under the School Details or Portal Settings sections.
3.) On the Edit System Configuration Page, you can update School Details and Portal Settings
1.1.1 Portal Administrator Alert
In a fresh installation of Academia, you are likely to see a red notification screen on the Admin default page. This is an indication that the system configuration is not complete, you may find any of the alerts listed below:
- ACADEMIA configuration details still reads default
- Class structure is not defined
- No subjects found
- No staff registered.
Clicking on any of the alerts, will take you to the page where you can fix that particular problem. For instance, clicking on ‘ACADEMIA configuration details still reads default’ will take you to the ‘Edit System Configuration’ Page where you can update/customize your School Details and Portal Settings.
N.B.: Please note that the field ‘Profile URL‘ under Portal Settings in the Edit System Configuration Page allows you to decide whether the ‘School Profile’ link in the primary navigation links to the Portal school profile page under web contents or instead to the School Website (if any was provided under System Configurations).
1.2 Class Structure
It is also important to create a class structure early in the customization process, before you begin to upload term reports or create other user accounts. You would be required to enter your regular class title, depending on what educational system or class range you are running this portal for, the class title could be basic, elementary, primary, JSS or SSS as the case may be. Next, you would be required to enlist class arms.
Class structure is quite easily created, you just need to follow the prompts. Mistakes made in your class structure will affect the entire functioning of the portal, and cannot be easily edited without causing some functional error to the Term Report management system.
The class structure links can be accessed on the ‘Admin Default Page‘.
1.3 Subject List
The Subject List is just as important as class structure in the smooth operation of Academia, it also can be accessed by the ‘Admin Default Page‘ and once created cannot be easily edited without causing some functional error to the Term Report management system.
1.4 Other Admin Tools
After the System Configuration, Class Structure and Subject List has been properly updated, you may proceed to other aspects of the Admin Menu, like adding Student Accounts, Staff Accounts, Web Contents and News Archive by following the prompts.
Term Reports database management which is at the core of the portal application, is found under the staff menu which can be accessed either you are logged in as Staff or Portal Administrator. Ensure that you have completed updates on System Configuration, Class Structures, Subject Lists, Student Accounts, Staff Accounts etc. before you proceed to enter your first Report Sheet.