Admin Features

Administrators have a collection of functions designed specifically for managing teams and Earth science events. These functions include:

  • Create an Earth science event

  • Delete an Earth science event

  • Add users to a team

  • Create users

  • Delete users

  • Deactivate an account

  • Set a new team lead

The administrator view also includes two new options on the left menu below Downloads. The A small image of users icon. page is used to manage users, and the A small image of teams icon. page is used to manage teams.

The administrator has access to the team dashboard, shown in Figure 20, where they can directly manage the team. The dashboard shows the team statistics (untagged, tagged present, tagged not present).

This image shows the dashboard an administrator can use to modify teams.

Figure 22: Teams dashboard

From the dashboard, an administrator can navigate to a particular team’s dashboard where he or she can add or remove a team member and set a team member to be the team lead.

From the user dashboard, an administrator can add a new user, view users and remove an existing user.

This image shows the dashboard an administrator can use to modify users.

Figure 23: Users dashboard

Create, Delete, and Update Events

The administrator can create a new Earth science event, from the event pages by clicking on the A small image of users icon. button on top-left corner next to download button. The administrator must give the new event a name on the popup window (Figure 21).

This image shows the page where an administrator can create a new earth science event.

Figure 24: Create a new Earth science event

If an administrator decides to delete an Earth science event, they will be shown the pop-up shown in Figure 25 asking for confirmation to delete the event.

Warning

When an event is deleted, all images associated with the particular event will be deleted (as indicated below).

This image shows the pop-up that an administrator will see when they want to delete an earth science event.

Figure 25: Delete an Earth science event

Activate/Deactivate Account

A feature that administrators have access to is the option to deactivate a user’s account. The administrator can click on A small image of user deactivation icon. to temporarily suspend an account and maintain the account information. The pop up to deactivate the account is shown in Figure 27. The administrator can also activate a deactivated account by clicking on A small image of user activation icon..

This image shows the pop-up that an administrator will see when they want to deactivate a users' account.

Figure 29: Deactivate an account

Team Controls

Administrators have the ability to add a member to a team A small image to add user., remove a member from a team A small image to remove user., assign a team member as the team lead A small image to set a new lead., or transfer the responsibility to another team member. Figure 28 shows the pop-up to make a team member the team lead, this can only be changed by an administrator.

A team lead will have access to the team dashboard, shown in Figure 30. Team leaders will be able to manage the team by adding and removing team members to their team. They are also able to see the progress on tagging images and distribute untagged images to team members to tag.

This image shows a teams dashboard.

Figure 30: Team dashboard