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Admin Guide

School Administrator Documentation

Manage students, programs, courses, enrollments, billing and settings from the staff portal.

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Administrative Access
Where staff work, and how to get in
An administrative role is required.
Ask the ESA system administrator for an admin or registrar role. Students and faculty do not see these screens.
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Sign in

Sign in at /auth/login with your staff account. Staff land on the staff portal automatically; you can also go straight to /school-tools.

2

Work from the staff portal

/school-tools opens on a dashboard — students, certificates issued, open applications, active enrollments, academic holds, action items, unread messages — and every record type you need is listed beside it. There are no separate modules to find.

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Use the admin console for the rest

/admin reaches every record type on the site, including ones the staff portal does not list, plus roles, site settings and pages. Use it when what you need is not on /school-tools.


Core Admin Workflows
The most common administrative tasks
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Review Applications

Open Admissions in the staff portal. Review each application and set its status. The applicant is notified when the status changes.

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Manage Programs

Open Programs. A program groups the courses that make up a qualification, and carries its type, regulator and licence or credential. Active programs appear in the public Program Catalog.

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Manage Courses

Open Courses for the individual courses students take — details, credits and assessment. A course can belong to more than one program.

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Process Enrollments

Enrollments puts an admitted student into a program; Course Enrollments shows the individual courses that follow from it. Registrations covers course sessions.

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Live Classes

/school-tools/live lists scheduled live classes and lets an instructor start one. Live Class Attendance records who attended.

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Tuition & Billing

Tuition holds payments and Billing the invoices behind them. Students see and pay their own from the student portal. An unpaid balance can raise an Academic Hold.

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Grades & Certificates

Gradebook holds marks, Certificates what has been awarded, and Student Activity what each student has done. Any list exports for bulk reporting.


System Settings
Configuration and access control
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Roles & Permissions

/admin/roles assigns roles — Registrar, Admissions Officer, Instructor, Advisor, Academics User, School Director — which decide what each person can reach.

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School Settings

Site Settings in /admin holds the institution-wide defaults: name and branding, academic terms, and the theme every page, portal and email is drawn in.

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Website & Pages

/portal/pages edits the public pages and their navigation. Changes are live as soon as they are published.

Need system-level access?

Contact the ESA technical team for role assignments, configuration, or infrastructure support.

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