Administrators…Making Little Lives a Safe and Fun Place
From LittleLives
Overview
1 - Administrator Role; 2 - Community Profile; 3 - Admin Log; 4 - Manage Users; 5 - Manage Community; 6 - Make Announcement; 7 - Create Groups
What is my role as an administrator?
In general, you oversee the activities of users of LittleLives. Specifically, you can:
- Regulate the accounts of users within your community. You will only manage one community.
- Communicate with them personally or communally.
- Create or de-activate groups to facilitate user participation.
- Publish selected kids work to be viewed by the world.
Your role as an administrator begins in the ‘admin’ section of your account.
If I am a student, am I able to become an administrator?
Nope! :X Only your teacher can be administrators because they are best suited to watch over you.
If I accidentally changed my account to that of a student role, will I have no more administrator rights?
Yes, your administrative rights will be revoked. Please ask another administrator (teacher) to re-instate you into your teacher role.
What can I do on my community profile?
It is allows you to edit and save your community's(school's):
- profile photo
- location
- email address
- description
After saving, these information will be shown on your community profile page for all the users within your community to see.
What is the difference between a community and a group?
In the school context, Community will be like a school and Group will be like a class or activity group within the school (e.g. band).
Communities can be created by users or automatically assigned to an administrator (usually a teacher).
Groups can only be created by administrators. Groups are an easy way for you to do group blogging, group photo sharing and group pages.
The creators of communities and groups will automatically become the administrator.
In a community there are many administrators (e.g. all teachers within a school community). A group can only have 1 creator who can control the group functions.
What does being a group member mean?
A group member is a friend of the group. If a teacher sends a message to the group, it will go to everyone in the group. If a student sends a message to the group, the message goes to the teachers in the group.
How do I administer a group?
As an admin, you may login as the group from its profile page. See below for how you can do so.
How to administer a group
On your home page, click on the ‘Admin’ tab (Step 1).
Inside your admin section, click on ‘Manage User’ tab (Step 2).
Select a group (Step 3).
Note: To return to your main account, repeat steps (1) and (2). At step (3), select your account and follow step (4).
What sort of actions can I take as an administrator?
Click on the ‘admin’ section of your account and you will see 5 grey tabs. Each tab signifies what you can do as an admin. They are:
- Admin Log.
- Manage Users.
- Manage Community.
- Make Announcement.
- Create Groups.
How does each tab work?
Admin Log
It displays activities occurring within the community in a downward flow, with the most recent activities beginning at the top.
Manage Users
Contains the full list of users in the community you are overseeing. You can:
- Add new users.
- Invite new users.
- Change their passwords.
- Edit their profiles.
- De/re activate their accounts.
- View their profiles.
How do I add new users?
In the "Add Users" box, enter the name, user ID, gender, role and email address (optional) of the user you want to add. Then click on the "Add User" button to add that user!
How do I invite new users?
In the "Invite Users" box, enter either the email address OR user ID of the user you want to invite. Then click on the "Send" button to invite that user!
Manage Community
You and users in your community can interact with partner communities and their users. You can search and connect with other communities, making them partner communities and even collaborate on projects.
We partner with other communities to share interests. You can send messages to your partner communities and also be informed of what’s happening to them.
Make Announcement
You can make an announcement to be broadcasted to members (both users and groups) in your community.
Create Groups
You can create a group by entering an unused User ID. The system will tell you if the name you entered is already in use.
The best way to name a group should be in this format: <School Name> <Class> <Year>. An example of a group named after a class is AnySchool 5A 2009.
A user has lodged a complain regarding another user. What does this mean?
At LittleLives, we want to maintain a safe and fun place for all users. Should there be any abusive/inapproriate behaviour on our site, the complain button acts to bring them to your attention. We believe this is needed for community policing and serves as an integral safety measure against distruptive behaviours.
Is there a way to block profanities/inapproprite words typed on whiteboards, messages and blogs?
No. At Little Lives, we believe in self-policing. This is made possible through your ability as an administrator to de-activate accounts which you deem contain inappropriate content.
How do I delete comments made in the students’ whiteboards?
How safe is it for students to post photos of themselves on Little Lives?
Photos uploaded by your students will only be viewable within his/her groups and community - they will be in no way posted onto the general World Wide Web. Ultimately, we encourage self-policing so you as an administrator is able to de-activate accounts which you deem contain inappropriate content.
