Kursthemen

  • Introduction

    "Welcome to our User Management course!"

    This is where your journey to become a SORMAS system administrator begins. Dive into an engaging interactive webinar, designed to not only provide vital information but also to test your understanding. This isn't just any demo - you'll answer questions and interact with it as you learn. After that, you'll take a short quiz to help reinforce what you have learned. If you finish all these activities, you'll get a special Digital Certificate to show that you have completed the course.

    Let's start learning!



    • About this course

      We invite you to complete this free course as an advanced course on User Management in SORMAS. Through interactive activities like webinars and a quizzes, you will engage with the content, reinforcing your learning and understanding of key concepts. As you progress you will earn badges and points to show your progress. Optional activities, links and demo screenshots are provided. The essential activities will be marked as complete after you have done so. If you achieve a passing grade of at least 70% in the final assessment, a digital certificate will be issued upon completion. At the end, you will find literature recommendations for additional information regarding this topic.

      🕑   Duration: Two hours

      👥   Audience: System Administrators: a good grasp on how to use SORMAS and its available features is required

      📲   Device: Laptop, tablet or smartphone. Participants should be comfortable navigating mobile devices, accessing apps, and using basic device functions

      📶   Internet: The course requires an internet connection, some assessments can be completed offline using the Moodle App

      📔   Certificate: Completion tracking and certificate is available if you create an account and are logged in with your full name and email address to receive a certificate. You also need to be enrolled with the course to start tracking your progress.

       
      Learning Objectives:

      This course will cover the following objectives:

      ✔️   First steps after initial setup of SORMAS

      ✔️   SORMAS default users

      ✔️   How to create and edit user accounts in SORMAS

      ✔️   The difference between rights and roles

      ✔️   How to create and edit custom user roles to adjust the system to your needs

       

      The course expects that you already have a good understanding of how to navigate SORMAS from a user’s perspective and the different features available in SORMAS.

      If you are unsure if you are ready for this course, you can test some of your knowledge by repeating some of the Basic Course Quizzes:

  • Default settings after setup

    You have set up and started your SORMAS server and are presented with the login screen for the first time. Congratulations, take some time to celebrate your achievement!

    Are you done? Perfect. Let’s move on as there is one important thing to do!

  • The difference between rights and roles

    "While deeply connected with each other, rights and roles are not the same."

    To fully understand how to control access to different modules of SORMAS and make sure users only have access to the data they need for their work, it is important to understand the difference between rights and roles.

  • Creating custom user roles and user accounts

    After you have learned about the default vlaues of SORMAS and best-practices in handling rights and roles, let's finally take a look at how you can customize your SORMAS setup to make it fit your local requirements!

  • Summary

    "Congratulations! You have made it to the end!"
     

    If you successful completed the course, you will now be awarded a Digital Certificate of Completion, acknowledging your readiness to contribute to global health surveillance efforts using SORMAS.