admin.md

Admin tab and functionalities

Admin tab has been created using a gem called ActiveAdmin.

Access

One can try to access the admin tab by accessing the /admin endpoint on the application. Upon reaching it, the user will be asked to enter their credentials in order to access the administration tab.

Note that ActiveAdmin uses Devise internally (as mentioned in authentication) meaning that there is a separate devise for normal users and AdminUsers.

Users with admin access type will be granted an AdminUser account, allowing them to access the administration tab after contacting the tech administrators.

This can also be done authomatically via scheduled/delayed jobs in the background, but is not a good idea.

Functionalities

Using the admin pages, the admin users can do a lot of stuff that normal users can not:

1. Creating/Editing Institutions
2. Creating/Editing GradingSystems (more info on those can be found here)
3. Creating/Editing AdminUsers and normal Users
4. Creating/Editing User profiles
5. Generating exports for ALL tabs, containing serious amount of information.

As one can see, access to those pages can lead to very serious issues if given to the wrong people. This is why administrator access is to be given only to a select few people that will play a role as a technical support team.