Super Admin User Guide
Everything a Super Admin can do, explained step by step with pictures of the real screens. Written for people who have never used a system like this before — no technical knowledge needed.
41 articlesLast updated 12 October 2026
Start readingGetting started
Sign in, find your way around, and set up your own account.
- Welcome to the LMSWhat a Super Admin account can do, and how this guide is organised.
- How to sign inOpen the system and sign in with your username and password.
- Understanding your dashboardThe first screen you see, what each number means, and the data synchronisation panel.
- Understanding the left-hand menuWhat each group in the menu contains, so you can find any screen.
- How to update your profile and passwordChange your picture, your details, your password and how the system looks.
- How to sign outLeave the system safely when you have finished.
Teaching and the timetable
Courses, groups of students, the timetable, who is enrolled, and the register.
- How to create and manage coursesAdd a course to the catalogue, fill in its details, and move it from draft to published.
- How to create and manage batchesA batch is one group of students taking a course together, with its own schedule and register.
- How to use the timetableSee every class that is scheduled, and filter it down to the one you want.
- How to manage enrolmentsSee which students are on which batch, and in what state.
- How to take and check attendanceMark who was in a class, and look back at the register for any batch or student.
Assessment and marks
Set work, run quizzes and examinations, record marks, and turn them into results and transcripts.
- How marking fits togetherRead this first: how assignments, quizzes, exams, the grade book and transcripts connect.
- How to set up a grading schemeDecide what counts towards a result and how much each part is worth.
- How to set and mark an assignmentCreate coursework, publish it to students, and mark what comes in.
- How to build and run a quizCreate a quiz, add questions and an answer key, set how it runs, and see how students did.
- How to schedule an examination and record resultsSchedule an exam, publish the schedule, enter marks for the whole group, then publish the results.
- How to use the grade bookSee every mark a student has earned on a batch, their standing, and the grading scale.
- How to see student performanceThe weighted standing of every student in a batch, and the arithmetic behind it.
- How to generate transcriptsProduce the final, publishable record of how students did on a batch.
Files and communication
Share files, post notices, run discussions, send messages and manage alerts.
- How to share files and foldersUpload files and share them with a course, a batch, a session or a person.
- How to find files shared with youEverything your colleagues have shared with you, in one place.
- How to post an announcementPut a notice in front of students, with a start and end date.
- How to start a discussionCourse-based conversation threads students and tutors can take part in.
- How to send a messageWrite to people you teach or administer, without seeing their email address.
- How to manage notificationsSee what the system has told you, and choose what you keep receiving.
People and permissions
Accounts, roles, what each role may do, employers, guardians and corporate managers.
- How to create and manage user accountsAdd an account, give it roles, and find anybody in the institution.
- How roles workA role is a named set of permissions. Create one and grant it what it needs.
- How to check what a role can doLook up every permission, see which roles hold it, and check what you hold yourself.
- How to manage organizationsEmployers whose staff are enrolled on your courses.
- How to link a guardian to a studentLet a parent or carer see one student's attendance, grades and schedule.
- How to assign students to a corporate managerDecide which students each corporate manager is allowed to follow.
- How to use My teamA progress summary for the people in your care — attendance, work and scores.
Administration
Reference data, connections to other systems, settings, and importing data.
- How to set up academic reference dataYears, semesters, departments, categories and tags — the lists everything else picks from.
- How to import data from LAITBring people, courses, batches, sessions and enrolments in from the LAIT system with one button.
- How to use integrationsGoogle Calendar, outgoing webhooks and subscribable calendar feeds.
- How to change system settingsA list of named settings and their values.
Reports and oversight
Figures for the institution, the record of what changed, and system health.
- How to use reportsSix ready-made reports, and how to export one to a spreadsheet.
- How to use the audit logThe permanent record of who changed what, and when.
- How to deal with sign-in problemsLocked accounts, who is signed in now, and recent sign-in failures.
- How to check system healthWhether the system is healthy — mainly for your technical team.
Solving problems
Answers to the questions that come up most often.