Adding admins and non-teaching staff to aPlus+
Canvas admins in most cases must be manually added to aPlus+ attendance as admins. This is best for larger institutions who may want to control who has access to aPlus+ Attendance at an admin level
Utilize the Administrator import tool.
Login to the admin portal and navigate to Admin –> Plug-Ins -> Plug-In Settings -> Canvas -> Admin User Import
Search for the Cavnas user that you would like to import as an administrator or centralized user.
Select Import on the relevent user.
Confirm the import.
You will be presented with the user settings page, in order to finalize the permissions that the user should have.
There are situations where you will need to give people access to aPlus+, who may not be setup as Canvas users. aPlus+ uses Canvas authentication when the LTI is in place,. This document outlines the best way to set up those ‘Special Case’ users.
- Setup the user in Canvas
- Setup a course in Canvas specifically to hold these users. In our example we have named it aPlus+ Special Users. Be sure to set term start and end dates for this course.
Add the Special Case users to this course as Teachers
In order for this user’s information to be propagated over to aPlus+, this user must click on the attendance link for this course before proceeding to the next steps. This can be done by the user, or by impersonating the user.
Ensure you proceed past the authorization screen.
You can then stop acting as user.
Now proceed to the direct login URL to your aPlus+ system (commonly known as the admin portal).
This is likely schoolname.aplusattendance.com.
Remember to stop acting as a user in Canvas so that your admin user is the one logging into this.
Navigate to Admin -> Staff -> Edit Staff
Start typing in the Special Case Users name, then select it when it pops up, then slick on Edit.
This screen is where you can allocate special permission to this user, over and above the default teacher permissions that they will have been granted for the Bucket Canvas course that you setup.
For information on how to set up these users permissions. Navigate to Help.
School Access: In the left hand contents, navigate to ‘School Administration’ -> ‘School Roles and Permissions’ and ‘Edit Staff and Access’
System Access: In the left hand contents, navigate to ‘System Administration’ -> ‘Staff’ -> ‘Edit Staff’
