Administer Users
As a network manager on a Pressbooks network, you have access to tools that allow you to add and delete users, search and filter your user list, and view detailed information about a given user on your network.
Register New Users
Network managers can select from a few different options for user registration as described in the Adjust Network Settings chapter of this guide. Depending on the settings you’ve chosen for your network, users may be added to the network via self-registration, through the use of our SSO or LTI integrations, by an existing user on the network, or by a network administrator. Here we’ll discuss how to add new users to your network as a network administrator. To add a new user:
- Login to your Pressbooks network as a network manager. Click the Add Users button in the top nav bar.
- From the ‘Bulk Add New Users’ menu, enter the email address(es) for the new user(s), then click Add users.
After you’ve clicked Add Users, a message will be sent to the email address(es) you entered asking the user(s) to reset their password. Any user added via this form will be asked to confirm their account to complete registration; after clicking the activation link in the confirmation email, they will appear in your network’s User List.
Use the User List
Pressbooks networks feature a User List, which provides you with a filterable, sortable list of all the users on your network. The User List provides quick insight into user identity, date of registration and last login, how many books a user belongs to, and what roles users hold in books across the network. To find the User List, access your Administer Network dashboard, then click Users in the left sidebar.
The first thing you’ll see is the exact number of users on your network and the timestamp for when the information in the table was last updated. You’ll then see a set of filters, and a dynamic table displaying all the users on your network sorted according to their registration date. For each user, you’ll see the following columns:
- Username
- Name (if available)
- Registered (date the user was registered on your network)
- Last login (date the user last logged into your network; if listed as N/A, the user has never logged in)
- Belongs to X books (# of books this user has a role in)
- As Admin (# of books this user has the administrator role in)
- As Editor (# of books this user has the editor role in)
- As Author (# of books this user has the author role in)
- As Collaborator (# of books this user has the collaborator role in)
- As Subscriber (# of books this user has the subscriber role in)
Each of the columns in the user list is sortable. To sort by a specific column, click that column’s title. The direction of the arrow next to the title shows the direction the results will be sorted. Click the column title a second time to reverse the sort order for a given column.
You can resize column width by clicking and dragging the ends of the column header. To increase or d