9. Staff access

Institution staff members enjoy a number of additional rights to regular members, for example:

  • creation of controlled groups
  • viewing of the real name of users
  • access to the User search page
  • viewing of the access list of user’s pages

Institution staff members have an additional navigation item: Institution information.

Main navigation bar for staff members

Main navigation bar for staff members

9.2. Viewing user reports

Institution information → User search → click on Get reports

See also

The functionality available to staff members is similar to the one for institution and site administrators as described in the administrator section on user reports if the site administrator allowed staff members to view the access reports.

This functionality can be especially interesting to a Mahara site that is being used with young learners who may require more scaffolding and supervision of which pages they make accessible to other users or the public.

Note

Despite the access to the reports and the CSV download file, staff members cannot manipulate user accounts or access user pages to which they have not received direct access from the user. The reports page only lists the pages, but does not give default access.

9.3. new in Mahara 1.6 Institution statistics

The functionality available to staff members is similar to the one for institution administrators as described in the administrator section on institution statistics if the site administrator allowed staff members to view the statistics.