Documents 6.b. Teacher and student profiles. Visitor’s profile.

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Once registered in the eTwinning project, we will have our TwinSpace ready to be used.
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Right now only two users can access the project: our partner and us.
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Therefore, the first step to be taken is to register all the teachers and students who are going to take part in the project.
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When users are registered, we must decide what role they are going to have within TwinSpace.
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As founders of the project, we have the ''teacher-administrator ''role, which has all the possible permits in TwinSpace.
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== Teacher and student roles. Visitor's profile  ==
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The role of a TwinSpace user grants some permits to carry out certain actions or not. For instance, a certain role can allow us to create activities but another role may not. Depending on the role, we may even see TwinSpace options that another role does not allow us to see.
 
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In the previous unit, we learned about roles for students, administrators and members, where student-administrators could perform more actions within TwinSpace.
 
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We can now see the most important roles a user can have to access the TwinSpace of a project:
 
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*'''Student-administrator'''. Remember that these students can add new activities, modify the elements of the students' room, etc. The main difference with the teacher-administrator's role is that they cannot register new users.
 
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*'''Student-member'''. Those students who only take part in the activities we suggest.
 
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*'''Teacher-administrator'''. Those teachers who are involved in the creation of the project: they can register new activities, new users and, in general, carry out any possible actions in TwinSpace, except for publishing&nbsp;in the&nbsp;''Students' corner''.
 
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*'''Teacher-member'''. Can take part in all activities but not create them. They cannot register new users either.
 
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*'''Visitor'''. By using a username and password, this kind of visitor can access all the contents available, even if they have not been made public. Then, we can restrict the access to the 'visitor' areas we do not want them to see. This user has no rights to publish or edit in any section of the TwinSpace. Sometimes, working with ICTs and mainly through the Internet can lead to a certain feeling of mistrust amongst parents and other colleagues. Through this profile, parents can see what their children are doing, how they work and what the project is exactly about. It is also an advisable profile to present the project for a Quality Label; this way, evaluators can see all the work done and the process followed.
 
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== Creating users with the teacher's or registered visitor roles.  ==
 
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Registering teachers to take part in TwinSpace is done like with students, as explained in Unit 5.
 
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*In the home page of our TwinSpace, go to&nbsp;''invite teachers and visitors, ''which is in the ''TwinSpace members'' window, on the top right-hand corner.
 
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The role of a TwinSpace user grants some permits to carry out certain actions or not. For instance, a certain role can allow us to create activities but another role may not. Depending on the role, we may even see TwinSpace options that another role does not allow us to see. Once registered in the eTwinning project, we will have our TwinSpace ready to be used.  
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*You will see a window where we are asked for the email addresses of the teachers we are going to invite to the project. Insert addresses for at least three users and click ''Send''. Should there be more than three, click the ""+"" sign above the ''Send'' button and you will see more spaces to write email addresses. In this example, we are going to insert two email addresses: the first one belongs to a user who has already registered in eTwinning, and the second one, to one who hasn't.
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This is a list of the profiles that a user can have to access the Project TwinSpace:<br>
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'''Teacher-administrator'''. They have control and full access to every place in TwinSpace. can accept new activities and users and - in general - carry out all possible actions in TwinSpace. Amongst other things, they are the only ones who can decide what parts are kept private and which ones are made public. Founder partners of a project automatically become teacher-administrators of the TwinSpace. <br>  
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'''Teacher-member''': They can take part in different tools, collaborate with images, documents, add messages to blogs, wikis and forums, once all these tools have been created by an administrator.&nbsp; Cannot accept new users. They will also take part in the Teacher's Room and other spaces created for this profile, which will be discovered later on. When an annexed partner is added to the project, the system awards him/her the default role of a teacher-member in the TwinSpace.<br>
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Even if they have some privileges in comparison to student-members, their work is similar.<br>  
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*Now we will see a window with information about the users we are going to invite to TwinSpace. Firstly, we can see each email address and, if the user has registered onto eTwinning, their name&nbsp;and surname; if the user has not registered&nbsp;onto eTwinning, as in case number 2, we have to fill in the name and address:
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'''Student-administrator'''. These students can add new activities, modify the elements of the students' room, etc. The main difference with the teacher-administrator's role is that they cannot register new users. <br>
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'''Student-member'''. Those students can participate in the Student's corner, answer in forums and take part in chats as well as upload files and images. <br>  
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'''Visitor'''. By using a username and password, this kind of visitor can access all the contents available, even if they have not been made public. Then, we can restrict the access to the 'visitor' areas we do not want them to see. This user has no rights to publish or edit in any section of the TwinSpace. <br>
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Sometimes, working with ICTs and mainly through the Internet can lead to a certain feeling of mistrust amongst parents and other colleagues. Through this profile, parents can see what their children are doing, how they work and what the project is exactly about.&nbsp;The role of the visitor can also be used to invite your school director to see what you are doing with the students, if he or she is not going to work in the project. It is also an advisable profile to present the project for a Quality Label; this way, evaluators can see all the work done and the process followed. <br>
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*The next two columns show the username and password for each user. If you have&nbsp;already registered onto eTwinning, the username and password will be the ones recorded (as in the first step); if you have not registered onto eTwinning (as it happens with the second user), we can invent a username and password (which have been invented by the system by default, but can be changed).
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=== Assigning user rights <br>  ===
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Before adding participating teachers to TwinSpace, we must decide what profile to give them, depending on the work to be done. If necessary, these profiles can be modified any time.<br>  
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*The last column is used to assign each user a role. There are three possible roles: administration teacher, member teacher and registered guest. We must not forget that in the previous section we studied what each role meant.
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*We shall be giving teacher-administrator rights to anyone we deem appropriate, especially if they take an active part, as long as there is a clear idea of the responsibility behind the access to all the tools: edition, creation, elimination... So administrators must have some basic knowledge to manage TwinSpace and learn about the functions and possibilities, in order to avoid possible conflicts and mistakes.
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*We must grant administrator rights to those teachers who develop organisational functions in the project or who direct groups of students and we want them to manage them. In projects with many partners, it is advisable to have several teacher-administrators, to avoid a small group from taking on too much work and share responsibilities.
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*It is advisable for teachers starting in eTwinning and TwinSpace, especially if they do not have too much experience using ICTs, to have an initial teacher-member profile. Then they can expand their functions and responsibilities. Having a member profile does not involve having fewer functions in the project; it is a preliminary step to taking on full responsibility in the management and achieving good results with commitment in the work designed.
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*The member role can also be a suitable profile for teachers who are going to make specific contributions to the project but not participate entirely.
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*The interactive animation below shows what actions they can perform each of the 5 profiles we have spoken:
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*When we click on ''Send,'' an invitation is made, and an email is sent to each guest invited. Let's go back to the TwinSpace homepage, and on the top part we will see a window showing the invitations made correctly, as well as&nbsp;any possible errors.
 
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*We can see a window where we must type in the name and surname of the students who will access TwinSpace. By clicking on the ''+'' symbol above the ''Send ''button we can insert more names. Once finished, click ''Send''.
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*Now we can see a window to register the data for each student. Firstly, we will see the names and surnames. Now we can see the user name and password to access TwinSpace. Lastly, a drop-down list will allow us to assign each student the ''administrator ''or ''member ''role.
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Current revision as of 08:27, 20 November 2012

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The role of a TwinSpace user grants some permits to carry out certain actions or not. For instance, a certain role can allow us to create activities but another role may not. Depending on the role, we may even see TwinSpace options that another role does not allow us to see. Once registered in the eTwinning project, we will have our TwinSpace ready to be used.

This is a list of the profiles that a user can have to access the Project TwinSpace:

Teacher-administrator. They have control and full access to every place in TwinSpace. can accept new activities and users and - in general - carry out all possible actions in TwinSpace. Amongst other things, they are the only ones who can decide what parts are kept private and which ones are made public. Founder partners of a project automatically become teacher-administrators of the TwinSpace.

Teacher-member: They can take part in different tools, collaborate with images, documents, add messages to blogs, wikis and forums, once all these tools have been created by an administrator.  Cannot accept new users. They will also take part in the Teacher's Room and other spaces created for this profile, which will be discovered later on. When an annexed partner is added to the project, the system awards him/her the default role of a teacher-member in the TwinSpace.

Even if they have some privileges in comparison to student-members, their work is similar.

Student-administrator. These students can add new activities, modify the elements of the students' room, etc. The main difference with the teacher-administrator's role is that they cannot register new users.

Student-member. Those students can participate in the Student's corner, answer in forums and take part in chats as well as upload files and images.

Visitor. By using a username and password, this kind of visitor can access all the contents available, even if they have not been made public. Then, we can restrict the access to the 'visitor' areas we do not want them to see. This user has no rights to publish or edit in any section of the TwinSpace.

Sometimes, working with ICTs and mainly through the Internet can lead to a certain feeling of mistrust amongst parents and other colleagues. Through this profile, parents can see what their children are doing, how they work and what the project is exactly about. The role of the visitor can also be used to invite your school director to see what you are doing with the students, if he or she is not going to work in the project. It is also an advisable profile to present the project for a Quality Label; this way, evaluators can see all the work done and the process followed.


Assigning user rights

Before adding participating teachers to TwinSpace, we must decide what profile to give them, depending on the work to be done. If necessary, these profiles can be modified any time.

Some advice:

  • We shall be giving teacher-administrator rights to anyone we deem appropriate, especially if they take an active part, as long as there is a clear idea of the responsibility behind the access to all the tools: edition, creation, elimination... So administrators must have some basic knowledge to manage TwinSpace and learn about the functions and possibilities, in order to avoid possible conflicts and mistakes.
  • We must grant administrator rights to those teachers who develop organisational functions in the project or who direct groups of students and we want them to manage them. In projects with many partners, it is advisable to have several teacher-administrators, to avoid a small group from taking on too much work and share responsibilities.
  • It is advisable for teachers starting in eTwinning and TwinSpace, especially if they do not have too much experience using ICTs, to have an initial teacher-member profile. Then they can expand their functions and responsibilities. Having a member profile does not involve having fewer functions in the project; it is a preliminary step to taking on full responsibility in the management and achieving good results with commitment in the work designed.
  • The member role can also be a suitable profile for teachers who are going to make specific contributions to the project but not participate entirely.
  • The interactive animation below shows what actions they can perform each of the 5 profiles we have spoken:



View on full screen


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