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netTrekker Search Provides Role-Based Access to Content

One of the ways netTrekker Search helps users get information quickly and efficiently is by providing Role-Based Access to content. This personalized access structure takes students, teachers, and administrators, alike, directly to the specific resources that meet their personal needs.

Students are directed to standards-based resources, learning aids, and assessments, without having to sort through lesson plans or other teacher resources.

Teachers have a Standards tab with easy access to state standards information and lesson plans. The Teacher role also contains Teacher Tools under the My Tools widget, as well as, convenient access to netTrekker Village, netTrekker Blog, Online Learning and the netTrekker Customer Center in the My Communities widget.

netTrekker school Administrators receive exclusive access to tools that assist with managing users and reviewing school usage of the product.

For more information about Role-Based Access, click here to view the Help topic on User Roles. The default role for a netTrekker user is Student. To change your role to Teacher, you will need to get the Teacher Code from your school or district netTrekker SEARCH administrator. View netTrekker’s Guide to Getting Started for Teachers to learn how to register a teacher account and enjoy the teacher resources highlighted above. Your teacher role also enables you to save and share searches communally among netTrekker SEARCH users in your school and district, and to create classes within the My Portfolio feature for users with the Teacher role.

Tags: staff development, Teacher Role, Training

Admin Tools Update

netTrekker Administrators, this is for you! In addition to providing new resources, the latest nT release offers Admins the ability to assign and revoke the Teacher role directly from the User Management page in Admin Tools.

You can still set up a Teacher Code in the Admin Tools, and have users login and change their user role from Student to Teacher for added functionality. However, now you can assign and revoke the Teacher role simple click of your mouse within the User Management interface, as well as take care of other important Administrator tasks that you are already familiar with:

• Review usernames and roles;
• Change passwords;
• Review and alter a username’s status and ability to log in;
• Review most recent login by username;
• Assign administrative rights;
• Delete a username.

Need more clarification on the User Management tool, or a refresher of other administrative functionalities? Log in to your nT account, click on the  Admin Tools link, and view our helpful Admin Videos. If you want, you can click here to go directly to the Admin Video on User Management.

Tags: Admin Tools, Teacher Code, Teacher Role