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Overview
A contact is a non-student system user who may or may not have an account to directly access Paradigm. Examples of contacts include administration staff, lecturers, teachers, etc. This page will provide you the links of all the associated knowledge articles under the Contacts Menu, and below the links are the Contacts sub-menus brief overviews and all its form sections as show in the Paradigm User Interface.
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Assumptions
The User has the minimum required level to access the Contacts tab
The User has the permission / authority of the Institution to grant access to users / to use Paradigm
Key terms and concepts
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Be AdvisedA contact is a non-student user who may or may not have an account to directly access Paradigm. Examples fo contacts include adminstration staff, lecturers, teachers etc. |
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Contacts Menu Knowledge Base Articles
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Contacts Sub-Menus Brief Overviews
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Here, a user can search for existing contacts ( |
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users). A |
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user can be search by Given Name, Family Name, Suburb, Postcode, Home Institution, Status, and Contact Role. At least one of these is required to search for contacts, however, more search parameters will reduce the results produced when searching. The results can then be ordered by First Name, Last Name, Status Id, or |
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New Contact records are added to the system here. For a basic record, the minimum required fields are |
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First Name, Last Name, Email Address, and Home Institution. From there, a role needs to be assigned for security access levels.  |
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From here, contact roles can be edited. All fields can be updated. However, if a name is updated – please ensure that the login name is also edited, or the previous username will still be active.  |
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The user's personal contact details can be added here. Multiple addresses can be stored within the system, including residential and postal addresses, |
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emergency contact details, and if required |
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, employer address.  |
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Once a contact record has been created, a username, password, and security group are then required. In this section, these are added and activated. Usernames are allocated by the system, based on the |
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contact's First and Last Names. Passwords must meet the password policy to be activated. When allocating a security group, it is important to know what the new |
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user’s role / position is within the institution – to ensure that the correct amount of access |
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is granted to the new contact or user of the system.  |
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Implications
When adding a contact the minimum required data to create a record:
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Field Name
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First name
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The new Users First Name
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Last Name
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The new Users Family / Surname
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Date of Birth
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Email Address
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An email address is required for the system to send emails from and to using the communication module
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NOTEMarking a contact with the status of "Archived" will also prevent that login from being able to access the system. |
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Home Institution
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This will lock the contact record to only be able to view and edit students associated with the same institution.
Further Reading
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This screen displays a timetable divided by day and hour of the Scheduled Unit Sessions associated with the loaded contact record.  |
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