11. Administration

The administration in Mahara is reserved for site and institution administrators. Configuration settings and functionalities that are only available to site administrators with full privileges are marked as such.

• 11.1. Administration navigation
• 11.2. Admin home
  • 11.2.1. Overview
  • 11.2.2. Warnings
  • 11.2.3. Registration
    • 11.2.3.1. Register your site
    • 11.2.3.2. Revoke registration
  • 11.2.4. Site information
  • 11.2.5. Clear caches
  • 11.2.6. Close site
• 11.3. Configure site
  • 11.3.1. Site options
    • 11.3.1.1. Site settings
    • 11.3.1.2. User settings
    • 11.3.1.3. Search settings
    • 11.3.1.4. Group settings
    • 11.3.1.5. Institution settings
    • 11.3.1.6. Account settings
    • 11.3.1.7. Security settings
    • 11.3.1.8. Proxy settings
    • 11.3.1.9. Email settings
    • 11.3.1.10. Notification settings
    • 11.3.1.11. General settings
    • 11.3.1.12. Logging settings
  • 11.3.2. Static pages
  • 11.3.3. Legal
    • 11.3.3.1. Privacy statement
    • 11.3.3.2. Terms and conditions
  • 11.3.4. Menus
    • 11.3.4.1. Links and resources
    • 11.3.4.2. Footer menu
  • 11.3.5. Networking
  • 11.3.6. Licenses
    • 11.3.6.1. List of licenses
    • 11.3.6.2. Add a license
    • 11.3.6.3. Edit a license
  • 11.3.7. Site pages and collections
  • 11.3.8. Site journals
  • 11.3.9. Share
  • 11.3.10. Site skins
  • 11.3.11. Fonts
    • 11.3.11.1. Install a local font
    • 11.3.11.2. Edit a local font
    • 11.3.11.3. Install Google font(s)
  • 11.3.12. Files
  • 11.3.13. Cookie Consent
• 11.4. Users
  • 11.4.1. User search
    • 11.4.1.1. Standard user search
    • 11.4.1.2. Advanced search options
    • 11.4.1.3. User bulk actions
      • 11.4.1.3.1. Suspend users
      • 11.4.1.3.2. Change authentication method
      • 11.4.1.3.3. Set spam probation
      • 11.4.1.3.4. Delete users
  • 11.4.2. User account settings
    • 11.4.2.1. Log in as
    • 11.4.2.2. Suspend user
    • 11.4.2.3. Delete user
    • 11.4.2.4. Change site account settings
    • 11.4.2.5. Change institution settings
  • 11.4.3. Suspended and expired users
    • 11.4.3.1. Suspended users
    • 11.4.3.2. Expired users
  • 11.4.4. Site staff
  • 11.4.5. Site administrators
  • 11.4.6. Export queue
  • 11.4.7. Add user
  • 11.4.8. Add and update users by CSV
  • 11.4.9. Change the authentication method and remote username in bulk
• 11.5. Groups
  • 11.5.1. Administer groups
    • 11.5.1.1. Group file quota
    • 11.5.1.2. Add or remove administrators
  • 11.5.2. Group categories
  • 11.5.3. Archived submissions
  • 11.5.4. Add and update groups by CSV
  • 11.5.5. Update group members by CSV
• 11.6. Institutions
  • 11.6.1. Overview
  • 11.6.2. Add an institution
    • 11.6.2.1. Change the institution logo
    • 11.6.2.2. Use the configurable theme
  • 11.6.3. Edit the site institution
  • 11.6.4. Edit an institution
    • 11.6.4.1. IMAP authentication
    • 11.6.4.2. LDAP authentication
      • 11.6.4.2.1. LDAP user sync
      • 11.6.4.2.2. LDAP group sync
    • 11.6.4.3. SAML authentication
    • 11.6.4.4. Web services
    • 11.6.4.5. XML-RPC / MNet authentication
    • 11.6.4.6. Order of authentication methods
    • 11.6.4.7. Suspend institution
  • 11.6.5. Institution static pages
  • 11.6.6. Legal
    • 11.6.6.1. Privacy statement
    • 11.6.6.2. Terms and conditions
  • 11.6.7. Members
    • 11.6.7.1. People who have requested institution membership
    • 11.6.7.2. People who have not requested membership yet
    • 11.6.7.3. People who have left a given institution
    • 11.6.7.4. People who are already institution members
    • 11.6.7.5. People who have been invited
  • 11.6.8. Institution staff
  • 11.6.9. Institution administrators
  • 11.6.10. Admin notifications
  • 11.6.11. Profile completion
  • 11.6.12. Institution pages and collections
  • 11.6.13. Institution journals
  • 11.6.14. Share institution pages and collections
  • 11.6.15. Files
  • 11.6.16. Tags
    • 11.6.16.1. Manage institution tags
    • 11.6.16.2. Create an institution tag
    • 11.6.16.3. Use an institution tag
  • 11.6.17. Pending registrations
    • 11.6.17.1. Self-register for an internal account
    • 11.6.17.2. Review pending registrations
    • 11.6.17.3. Complete self-registration
  • 11.6.18. Pending deletions
• 11.7. Reports
  • 11.7.1. Structure of a report
  • 11.7.2. Report configuration
  • 11.7.3. Content
    • 11.7.3.1. Content report
    • 11.7.3.2. Objectionable content report
  • 11.7.4. Groups report
  • 11.7.5. Institution
    • 11.7.5.1. Institution comparison report
    • 11.7.5.2. Logins report
    • 11.7.5.3. Overview report
  • 11.7.6. People
    • 11.7.6.1. Collaboration report
    • 11.7.6.2. Legal consent report
    • 11.7.6.3. Masquerading sessions report
    • 11.7.6.4. Page activity report
    • 11.7.6.5. People overview report
    • 11.7.6.6. Portfolio access report
    • 11.7.6.7. User activity report
    • 11.7.6.8. User details report
• 11.8. Extensions
  • 11.8.1. Plugin administration
    • 11.8.1.1. Blocktype: File / folder
    • 11.8.1.2. Blocktype: File / gallery
    • 11.8.1.3. Blocktype: File / internalmedia
    • 11.8.1.4. Blocktype: Text
    • 11.8.1.5. Blocktype: Wall
    • 11.8.1.6. Artefact type: Comments
    • 11.8.1.7. Artefact type: File
      • 11.8.1.7.1. Default user quota
      • 11.8.1.7.2. Default group quota
      • 11.8.1.7.3. Upload agreement
      • 11.8.1.7.4. Resize images on upload
      • 11.8.1.7.5. Profile picture size
      • 11.8.1.7.6. Comments
      • 11.8.1.7.7. Folder downloads
    • 11.8.1.8. Artefact type: Profile
    • 11.8.1.9. Authentication: SAML
    • 11.8.1.10. Search: Elasticsearch
    • 11.8.1.11. Search: Internal search
    • 11.8.1.12. Interaction: Forum
    • 11.8.1.13. Module: LTI
    • 11.8.1.14. Module: Mobile API
  • 11.8.2. HTML filters
  • 11.8.3. Allowed iframe sources
  • 11.8.4. Clean URLs
  • 11.8.5. SmartEvidence
  • 11.8.6. Web services
• 11.9. SmartEvidence
  • 11.9.1. Overview
  • 11.9.2. SmartEvidence framework settings
  • 11.9.3. Download framework files
  • 11.9.4. Create a framework file
    • 11.9.4.1. Start of the file
    • 11.9.4.2. Standards section
    • 11.9.4.3. Standard elements section
    • 11.9.4.4. The end of the file
    • 11.9.4.5. The result
  • 11.9.5. Add a framework
  • 11.9.6. Work with a framework
• 11.10. Web services
  • 11.10.1. Configuration
    • 11.10.1.1. Enable web service functionality
    • 11.10.1.2. Networking certificates
    • 11.10.1.3. Manage service groups
    • 11.10.1.4. Manage service access tokens
    • 11.10.1.5. Manage service users
  • 11.10.2. Application connections
  • 11.10.3. Connection manager
  • 11.10.4. Registration of external apps
  • 11.10.5. Web services logs
  • 11.10.6. Web services test client
• 11.11. Experimental features
  • 11.11.1. Bulk export of Leap2A files
  • 11.11.2. Bulk import of Leap2A files
    • 11.11.2.1. Bulk import using a bulk export file
    • 11.11.2.2. Bulk import from scratch
  • 11.11.3. usersuniquebyusername variable
• 11.12. Config.php variables
  • 11.12.1. Anatomy of a config variable
  • 11.12.2. developermode: Enable or disable developer mode
  • 11.12.3. directorypermissions: Permissions to use in dataroot
  • 11.12.4. insecuredataroot: Share the same dataroot with another Mahara
  • 11.12.5. noreplyaddress: System email address
  • 11.12.6. log targets: Destination for log information
  • 11.12.7. log_file: File containing error messages
  • 11.12.8. log_backtrace_levels: Log backtraces
  • 11.12.9. log_backtrace_print_args: Log backtraces
  • 11.12.10. error_reporting: Error reporting
  • 11.12.11. openbadgedisplayer_source: Open Badges displayer sources
  • 11.12.12. passwordsaltmain: Set a site-wide password salt
  • 11.12.13. pathtoclam: Path to virus scanner ClamAV
  • 11.12.14. probationenabled: Give users probation status
  • 11.12.15. productionmode: Enable or disable production mode
  • 11.12.16. remoteavatarbaseurl: Remote avatar server URL
  • 11.12.17. renamecopies: Rename copied pages and collections
  • 11.12.18. sendemail: Send all emails to one address
  • 11.12.19. sendallemailto: Send all emails to one address
  • 11.12.20. sessionhandler: Select the session handler
  • 11.12.21. showloginsideblock: Show or hide the login sideblock
  • 11.12.22. sitethemeprefs: Choose your browse theme from any theme
  • 11.12.23. skins: Skins
  • 11.12.24. urlsecret: Run the cron or upgrade only when you are authorised
  • 11.12.25. usersuniquebyusername: The internal Mahara username prevails when connecting external authentication methods
• 11.13. Command-line interfaces (CLI)
  • 11.13.1. Delete certain groups in bulk
  • 11.13.2. Delete certain users in bulk
  • 11.13.3. Index sites running Elasticsearch faster
  • 11.13.4. Install and update language packs
• 11.14. Style guide