Overview of the Group Administrators Menu

IBS 2.7 > Group Administrator Functions: General Functions

The Group Administrator has many important duties in IBS 2.7. To perform these duties, you will use the functions on the Group Administrators (GA) menu. To see the GA menu, log in to IBS, then enter the campus of the Group for which you are a GA. The Group Administrators menu will appear in the sidebar.

Each of the functions on the GA menu is explained in detail in the Group Administrator Orientation for IBS 2.7 and/or in articles in this Knowledgebase. In addition, you may want to review the IBS 2.7 Concepts: Information for Group Administrators slide presentation, available on the IBS Help page. This presentation gives a high-level overview of IBS 2.7, with particular emphasis on concepts that are new to this release of IBS.

The GA menu is divided into several sections. They are:

• General Administration Functions: 
• Group Cost Elements: View the various factors that affect your Group's pricing and revenue
• Group Details: View your Group's information the way a student will see it
• Edit Group Profile: Update the information you entered when you created your Group 
   
• Publisher Functions: Contributing Courses to the IBS Inventory: 
• Set Publisher Pricing Factors: Set the factors that give discounts to specified Academic Groups
• Define Courses: Enter information about a course that you intend to publish 
• Publish Products: Enter information about the format(s) in which you will publish your courses
   
• Academic Functions: Offering Courses to Students: 
• Set Academic Pricing Factors: Set the factors that give discounts to students in specified countries
   
• Staff
• Facilitators: Approve new facilitators, reassign facilitators to classes, or send notices to all facilitators in your Group
• Academic Deans: Assign or remove academic deans or send notices to all academic deans in your Group
   
• Students
• Admissions / Financial Aid: Admit or reject students who have applied to your Group, set financial aid level for each student, or send notices to students in your Group
• Enrollments: See the courses in which students in your Group have enrolled
   
• Academic Offerings
• Course Catalog: Select the courses to be included in your Group's master list of courses
• Study Programs: Define study programs that will be available to students in your Group
• Sales Catalog: Select and price the products you will offer for sale to students in your Group
   
• Assessments
• Completion Criteria: Set default minimum scores that students must achieve before they can be considered to have completed a class
• Assessment Types: Request a new type of assessment that facilitators can include in their grading protocols
   
• Transactions
• Escrow
• Escrow Activity: View transactions that have occurred in your Group's escrow account; initiate an escrow deposit or withdrawal
   
• Retail 
• Retail Activity: View a record of all activity related to retail transactions in your Group, including sales, refunds, and shortfalls
• Sales Orders: View a record of each order placed within your Group, including detailed data for each line item within the order
   
• Period End Processing
• PEP History: View a record of all transactions that occurred during each PEP cycle, including escrow activity, sales, refunds, shortfalls, and the net amount disbursed to your Group at the end of the cycle
   
• Tools
• Statistics: View statistics about your Group and about IBS as a whole, such as how many students are registered in IBS, what countries they represent and what languages they speak