Administration of Groups

As an administrator, you have the ability

• to edit all statements in the discussion, including those made by other users
• to add and edit users – including editing email address, assigning them to groups, and initiating emails to allow users to sign up.
• to delete users – if you delete a user who has written statements, the statements will remain part of the discussion and will be attributed to you
• to hide and unhide discussions
• to turn rating for a discussion on and off
• to see reports of user engagement and ratings

You do not have the ability

• to change other users’ ratings and comments
• to make your discussions open to general sign up by members of the public
• to merge your groups with other groups

User list administration

If you click on Account, you see a screen with two columns: Change Your Info and Manage Your Accounts.  Under Manage Your Accounts you will see places to manage Users and Groups.  In Users, you can produce a list of all users in your account.  You can click on the names of users with a lower authorization level than yours and edit this information, although changing users’ email addresses, names, and passwords should be done only on rare occasions.  The field you are more likely to need to change is the Grouping to assign and remove users to groups.

You can also create a new user and assign him or her to groups.

The Groups section allows you to list all the groups in your account.  If you click on a group you will see a list of all users in your account with checkmarks next to the users in that group.  You can check on uncheck to add or remove users from groups.  Note that users can modify their own membership through their account management.  You can also create new groups and assign members to them.  This may come in useful after a discussion is done and all users have rated discussions.  If you want to analyze the rating data for a group you had not thought about before the discussion began, you can create the group, assign members, and immediately get the data.

Creating a user group

Pick a unique name for your group. Check the user names of people you want to assign to the group. The inidividual users can later change their group identification.