Posted on May 01, 2014
What permissions does each Admin user type have?
One question we’ve heard asked is what is the difference between the various Admin user account types. Here is a quick synopsis.
What each Admin type can do (unique items for that admin type are colored):
- Other Administrators (various school staff, board members, etc.)
- View all the reports in the system
- Print shift schedules / sign-in sheets
- Event Chairpersons
- View all the reports in the system
- Validate (or decline) service worked
- Print shift schedules / sign-in sheets
- Update or cancel sign-ups for users (no constraint about how many days in advance)
- Add / Change / Delete event, shift, task information
- Office Staff
- View all the reports in the system
- Print shift schedules / sign-in sheets
- Update or cancel sign-ups for users (no constraint about how many days in advance)
- Support users with questions — look up account info, user info, student info, etc.
- Suspend accounts, re-activate accounts, approve admin account requests
- Manage the student data throughout the year
- Update which students are linked to which households
- Assign service hours to parents, not necessarily associated to a given sign-up shift
- Update the hours worked by a given parent for a given shift
- Transfer hours between households
- Print a detailed service report for every family (e.g. to send home, quarterly)
- Do a bulk cleanup of data after the school year to remove graduates and accounts that no longer have kids in the school
- Add / Change / Delete event, shift, task information
- Webmaster
- All of the above
- View the error log
- Run a database consistency audit