Managing users

Adding Administrators and Reviewers

If you are part of a department or student group, you may want to allow others to access the CMS. By default, only the person who requests a QuickPolls account has access to it via the CMS until that person adds access for others.

To add new administrators or reviewers who may access your QuickPolls account via the CMS, log in and navigate to Users. The form at the bottom of the page allows you to add access, one at a time:

If you're not sure of the new user's BU login name, you can search by first and last name using the BU online directory. The Directory Lookup link launches a convenient pop-up window for this purpose:

When you find the person you want, just click on the link for that person in the pop-up window to automatically add the login name to the form's BU Login field.

The class defines what sort of access the new user has. Administrators have access to everything, just like you do. Reviewers, on the other hand, only have access to current and past poll results. They cannot alter any information about any poll or about your account in general.

Modifying and Removing Access

From the Users page, you can also delete or change the status of existing administrators and reviewers. To the right of each user's name is a drop-down box, like this one:

To make the user an Administrator, choose Make administrator. To make the user a reviewer, choose Make reviewer. .To delete the user entirely, choose Remove user from the pull-down menu. Note that when you select an option from one of these drop-down lists, the specified action is taken immediately for the appropriate user.