System Settings (Professional only)

 

The Identity section allows you to customize your branch site identity settings:

 

 

• Redirect on logout: Enter the URL you want you users to be taken to after logging out
• Site name: This is the name that will appear in the browser tab
• Site motto: This is the text that appears when you hover over the tab displaying the Academy.

 

 

In the Date & Language section, you can customize the settings that define the branch language, region and date/time preferences:

 

 

• Default Language: Choose which language the Academy appears in. Please note that all Ideagen content is only available in English.
• Date format: Choose a date format, e.g. DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY
• 1st Week Day:Choose which day to be considered by the system as the start of a week (Monday or Sunday)
• Time zone:Choose the time zone for your branch geographical region
• CSV Delimiter: Choose which symbol is used to separate data when exporting / importing data.

 

 

The Appearance section allows you to customize visual settings for your branch:

 

 

• Default courses view: Choose between list or grid format
• Show only courses in progress for learners: Only courses that learners have started will be displayed
• Maximize viewable area for learner: By default, courses will expand to take the most available space. Users will still be able to change this while viewing a course
• Enable course ratings: Allow learners to apply a rating to a course
• Enable help: Not in use
• Display the branch name at the navigation bar: This will display your branch name to the right of the logo at the top of the screen.
• System logo: Change the logo that appears at the top-left of the screen
• System favicon: Change the small logo that appears in the browser tab

 

 

The Security section allows you to customize the password settings for your branch, split across two tabs.

 

 

Captcha: You can select whether users must enter some Captcha text when signing in.

Password Virtual Keyboard: Not in use

 

 

• Force Password Expiration: You can force users to change their password every 1,2,3,6 or 12 months. You can also restrict them from using previous passwords.
• Minimum password length: Set the minimum required length of passwords between 1-10. The default is 6 characters.
• Password Regular Expression: You can specify the format of a password
• Password Label: Enter any guidance to be shown to users when entering a new password
• Force password change upon initial login: This option should always be turned on.
• Show the reset password link: This option should always be turned on

 

 

The Users section allows you to adjust several user settings, split across two tabs.

 

 

• Allow self signup: This option should be disabled. You should instruct users in your organisation to contact you directly if they wish to be added to the Academy.
  • Users are required to provide an email: Not in use
• License note: Add license terms and conditions on the login page
• Force users to accept the license note upon each login: Will force all users of your branch to accept the license notes every time they login to the Academy
  • "Keep me logged in" option: Do not select this option. The Academy has been configured to log out users automatically after 60 minutes of inactivity.

 

 

• Username format: Please note that you should use the learner's email address as their username
• Mapped accounts: By default, this feature is turned on. However, you can turn it off, or restrict mapping accounts to specific user types. To do this, selected the [Advanced] tab, thenfrom the "Mapped Accounts" drop-down list, select which user types will have permission to use this feature

  • If you have not already done so, create the two user accounts (see Adding users). You should create the Administrator/Instructor account first using the user's primary email address – this account will then be their main Academy account and the one they use to log in.

    See also Users - Mapped Accounts.

 

 

This feature is not currently supported by Ideagen.

 

 

- In the [Mail] tab, do NOT change any of the settings / fields in the [Mail] tab, otherwise the Academy will not be able to send out any notifications.

 

Currently, the only integration that is supported is integration with Q-Pulse v6.8+. For more information, see Q-Pulse / Academy Integration (Professional Only)

 

Yes, Professional Academy customers can have a customised URL to the Academy (e.g. mycompany.ideagenacademy.com). For details on how to do this, see Creating a custom URL.

 

You must create a custom URL if you wish to integrate the Academy with Q-Pulse. See Q-Pulse / Academy Integration.