Best practices for administrators

Best practices for administrators

Overview

The following are recommended best practices for new administrators.

Choose a short URL

Keep your URL short—ideally fewer than 10 characters. For example, if your company is called 'The Academy of Digital Photography,' a URL like 'ADP' is ideal because 'http://adp.matrixlms.com' is easy to remember and quick to type. In contrast, 'http://academyofdigitalphotography.matrixlms.com' is harder to remember and cumbersome to type. To change your URL:
  1. Click Admin from the primary navigation menu.
  2. Click Portal from the fly-out menu.
  3. Click Edit your MATRIX URL in the URL section.
    1. Academia platform users will click Edit your NEO URL in the URL section.

Customize your company portal

When you first register your company, your company portal has default slides and links. Customize your portal by adding pictures, logos, and primary navigation colors that best represent your company. To learn more, visit the Portal article.

Add news items regularly

Keep your users informed by adding company news items frequently. That way instructors, administrators, and students can all get a sense of the latest news at your company, and can even subscribe via RSS if they like.

Take advantage of the mobile app

If you access the site on your mobile device, be sure to download the latest app. Visit the Mobile app article to learn more.  

Create course templates for all your courses

The course template feature is very powerful because it allows you to create a version of a course that can be used as a cookie-cutter for making copies of the course. It's easy to create course templates and put them into your company library for reuse by instructors. In addition, copies of the course template can be selected as "child courses" of the template, and then easily synchronized with the template if it changes. To learn more, visit the Course template article.