Adding admins and non-teaching staff to aPlus+

adding administrator users to canvas 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 please see https //app archbee com/docs/f3zh9n7leqlkrbuiwiuqr/ka9dgxnliqhzgxsbud0t5 adding special case users 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’