Documents 6.b. Teacher and student profiles. Visitor’s profile.
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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 any possible errors. | *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 any possible errors. | ||
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== Creating users with a student role == | == Creating users with a student role == | ||
Revision as of 11:37, 21 March 2010
Once registered in the eTwinning project, we will have our TwinSpace ready to be used.
Right now only two users can access the project: our partner and us.
Therefore, the first step to be taken is to register all the teachers and students who are going to take part in the project.
When users are registered, we must decide what role they are going to have within TwinSpace.
As founders of the project, we have the teacher-administrator role, which has all the possible permits in TwinSpace.
Teacher and student roles. Visitor's profile
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.
In the previous unit, we learned about roles for students, administrators and members, where student-administrators could perform more actions within TwinSpace.
We can now see the most important roles a user can have to access the TwinSpace of a project:
- 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.
- Student-member. Those students who only take part in the activities we suggest.
- 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 in the Students' corner.
- Teacher-member. Can take part in all activities but not create them. They cannot register new users either.
- 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.
Creating users with the teacher's or registered visitor roles.
Registering teachers to take part in TwinSpace is done like with students, as explained in Unit 5.
The steps are as follows:
- In the home page of our TwinSpace, go to invite teachers and visitors, which is in the TwinSpace members window, on the top right-hand corner.
- 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.
- 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 and surname; if the user has not registered onto eTwinning, as in case number 2, we have to fill in the name and address:
- The next two columns show the username and password for each user. If you have 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).
- 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.
- 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 any possible errors.
Creating users with a student role
The steps to be followed are similar to the ones we took for the teacher:
- Firstly, we must click on the Invite pupils link.
- 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.
- 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.
Once we have clicked Send, we will return to the TwinSpace homepage, and we will see whether the users have registered correctly.
As opposed to the registration for users with the teacher or registered guest roles, no emails are sent to new users. Therefore, we should write down each student's user name and password.
