ACADEMY

Course Based Learning Management System

Administrator Usage Guide

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Index

Contents for Admin Panel:

● Dashboard
● Categories
■ Category
■ Sub-category
● Courses
■ Courses
■ Manage Sections
■ Manage Lessons
● Students
● Enrollment
■ Enroll History
■ Enroll A Student
● Report
■ Admin Revenue
■ Instructor Revenue
● Message
● Settings
■ System Settings
■ Frontend Settings
■ Instructor Settings
■ Payment Settings
■ Manage Language
● Manage Profile
1. Dashboard
a. System summary shown in the home page. Total number of
courses, Total number of lessons, Total number of
Enrolments, Total number of Students are being shown in the
dashboard.

2. Categories:
a. Category
b. Sub-Category

- How to create Category?

- From the Admin panel navigation menu, go to the
Categories. The admin will be able to see a list of categories
that admin has created. On the top of the list there is a button
named “+Add Category”. On clicking that button admin will
see a form for creating categories.

- How to create Sub-category?

- For creating sub-categories, Admin can create sub-category
for the Category page. He has to select a category to create a
sub-category of it. Just click on the Action dropdown menu
of that specific category and select the Manage Sub Category
option. It will take admin to the Sub-category page. Where
admin can see a list of the Sub-categories of that specific
category. On the top of the list there is a button named “+Add
 Sub Category”. On clicking that button admin will see a form
for creating Sub category.

3. Courses:
a. Courses
b. Manage Section
c. Manage Lessons

- How to create courses?

- For creating a course, Admin has to create a Category and a
Sub-category first. Admin will be able to see all the courses
on Course page. Go to the Courses option from the admin left
navigation menu, it will show a list of all created Courses. By
selecting desired category and sub category admin can filter
the course list. A form will be appeared after clicking on the
“+Add course” button on the top. Admin can create new
courses by giving all the necessary data.

- While creating a course admin can provide ​valuable

information like ​meta keyword, meta description for that
specific course ​to make it easy for search engines to find and
organize it​. What we call ​Search Engine Optimization or
SEO

- How to manage Sections?

- Every course should have at least one section. Admin can
select a course for managing sections of it. Just go to the
 Course page from admin navigation menu, select a course,
click on the Action dropdown menu, choose Manage
Sections. A list of created sections for that specific course
will appear. Admin can create new sections by simply
clicking on “+Add Section” button. Admin can Edit, Delete
and Serialize those sections by choosing the options from
Action dropdown menu.

- How to manage Lessons?

- Admin can select a course for managing lessons of it. Just go
to Courses from admin navigation menu, select a course,
click on the Action dropdown menu, choose Manage Lesson.
A list of created lessons for that specific course will appear.
Admin can create new lessons by simply clicking on “+Add
Lesson” button. Admin can filter lessons by selecting course
from the course dropdown. Admin can also Edit, Delete those
lessons by choosing the options from Action dropdown
menu.
- Admin can create different types of lessons like video url,
text file, pdf file images etc. He/ She needs to choose the
lesson type first when creating a lesson.

4. Student:
a. Admin will be able to see all the student list who signed up
for. Just go to Student from Admin navigation menu. Admin
will be able to create student by himself also. He can also
Edit and Delete student from the Student page.
5. Enrollment:
 a. Admin will be able to see the list of all the enrolled student
will appear on Enroll history page. Admin can find this from
admin navigation menu to Enroll History.
b. Admin can enroll a student manually. From Enroll A Student
option.
6. Report:
a. Admin Revenue:
i. After every successful course purchasing, Admin will
get the entire amount as revenue if he creates the
course. And if he is not the creator of that course he
will get a predefined amount from that. Admin revenue
option will show all of them.
b. Instructor Revenue:
i. If an instructor publishes a course, After a successful
purchasing Admin will pay him an amount (​Which will
be calculated based on Instructor settings ​>
Instructor Revenue Percentage​). All the payment info
with payment status will be shown here.

- How to pay an instructor?

- As we described before, If an instructor publishes a course,
after every successful purchasing he will get a percentage of
the total amount of that course. The percentage will be
predefined by Admin from the Instructor Settings. On
Instructor Revenue view, All the payment made by users is
being shown. Here you will get the Course name which has
been purchased, the instructor name, total amount, the
amount instructor needs to get and the Admin to Instructor
payment status. If the payment status is “​Pending​” that
 means, Admin needs to pay the instructor. If the payment
status is “​Paid​” that means Admin has already paid to the
Instructor. Admin can pay the instructor by clicking the Pay
with Paypal and Pay with Stripe button. But before that every
instructor has to provide the Paypal and Stripe payment
gateway credentials from the ​Instructor >​ ​ Dashboard​.

7. Message:
a. Admin can find a Message option in the admin navigation
menu. Where he can start or continue a one to one
conversation between him and his students.

8. Addons:
a. Addon Manager
b. Available Addons

- What is Addon manager?

- Academy LMS now supports addon system for expanding
application utilities. We will release different types of addons
day by day which will add a new dimension on Academy.
- For getting addons, you can click on the Available addons
option or you can check our website.
9. Settings:
a. System Settings
b. Frontend Settings
c. Instructor Settings
d. Payment Settings
 e. Manage Language

- What is System Settings?

- Settings are the key component of any management system.
The flexibility of a system is defined by its easy to handle
[Link] “System Settings” will let the Admin to change
the basic system settings by editing the required data field.
Also it gives a feasibility to change logo, contact information
other important settings aspect.
- On system settings Admin now can ​provide valuable
information like ​meta keyword, meta description and author
name ​and make it easy for search engines to find and
organize it​. What we call ​Search Engine Optimization or
SEO

- What is Frontend Settings?

- The “Frontend Settings” will let the Admin to change the basic
settings for Fronted by editing the required data field. Also it
gives a feasibility to change frontend logo, home banner, About,
Privacy Policy and Terms and condition other important settings
aspect.

- What is Instructor Settings?

- If Admin wants multiple instructor for this application he can
just simply enable the ​Allow Public Instructor​ option from
the Instructor Settings. After enabling it, Every signed up
user will be able to become an Instructor.
- If an instructor publishes a course, after every successful
purchase that instructor as well as the admin should get some
 revenue. Admin can predefine the percentage of the revenue
from here.

- What is Payment Settings?

- The “Payment Settings” will let the Admin to change the
payment settings like Client ids, Secret keys, public keys of
different types of payment gateways. Also it gives a
feasibility to change the Testmode.
- From payment settings admin can set the currency. Admin
can set 3 types of currencies. One for System default
currency, another is for PayPal currency and the last one is
for Stripe currency. For keeping consistency Admin should
keep all the currency same.

- What is Manage Language?

- The software supports multiple languages. For selecting a
language which can be availed from “Settings” section. Click
on “Language Settings” option and it will show all the
available languages and allows addition of new phrase and
new languages with its “Add Phrase” and “Add Language”
tab.

8. Manage Profile
- The profile information can be edited by clicking at “Admin
Profile image” from the Header. The information can be
edited and saved using this “Update Profile”.