Welcome to this brief overview of campusM App Manager, our web-based configuration tool, where you can configure your campusM app for your end users.

In this session we'll look at the key feature areas within App Manager, and then discuss how to manage your App Manager users, so that you can get your whole team working productively within App Manager.

You can access your App Manager via a URL and initial credentials provided to you by Ex Libris. 

You will have two instances of App Manager, one to configure your Sandbox and Production apps and one for your preview app.

The App Manger homepage offers access to various configurational components of campusM.
Depending on your user permissions, you will see different areas here.

You can manage your user details from your username in the top menu. We recommend to change your password upon your first login.
 
Here you can see the name of the App you are currently configuring, or select a different app to configure. Always make sure you are configuring your intended app.

The Help menu offers a range of resources to help you use campusM.

Let’s look at some of the common configuration areas of App Manager.

The App Builder provides you with an interface to manage the look and feel of your app, along with deploying services and tiles to your app's home-screen. The main panel displays a preview of your app. You can select a range of devices, to visualize what different users will see.

Let's continue our tour of the App Manager areas. You can switch to a different area via the Navigation menu.

Under App Settings you can configure general app settings, manage profiles and roles, set up maps and positions, publish content, configure feedback, and more.

Next, the Notification Center is where you send app notifications to individuals or groups of your users. You can see from the dashboard an overview of sent messages and notification analytics. You can also manage notification group subscriptions from this interface.

Next, let's look at Creative Studio which is a powerful content creation tool. Creative Studio has an intuitive drag-and-drop interface and content templates to get you started. App content creators can quickly develop engaging content and publish it immediately for the end users.

The next areas is Product Integrations. This is where you can create and configure integrations with external systems, such as your LMS, to deploy within your app. Each instance represents an integration point that enriches your users' experience.

Next; in the Quick Polls area you can create and configure campusM Quick Polls, to be distributed to your end users. From this area you can define questions and answers, the target audience for your polls, and analyze aggregated results sent in by your end users.

The next section, Asset Manager, provides a light-weight interface for uploading and accessing images and other files to be used across the app, particularly via App Builder and Creative Studio.

In the Attendance area you can configure our innovative multifactor student attendance validation solution.

Under Analytics, you will be taken to our Oracle Analytics platform where you can view and edit a range of insight reports regarding aggregated usage data and trends.

The AEK section covers the deployment of Application Extension Kit Projects within campusM. This is an advanced toolset and will be rarely visited by most administrators.

Finally, we have the Users and Permissions section. Here you can manage your staff users and their roles governing access to App Manager.

Lets talk briefly about App Manager user management.

In the Users section, you can add new users or edit existing ones.

For each user, you can edit their user details, and add and remove permissions, and set restrictions on the areas of the app that the user can work within.

You can also apply one or more Groups to the user. These groups allow you to define permission sets for different segments of your administrators.

After editing a user, save your changes.

To edit the permissions for a group, go to the Groups area and from here you can create and manage the access rights for the users in the group. For example, you may want your content owners to access the areas of the app for creating and editing content pages, but not for other areas, such as user management and analytics.

By configuring your users, groups, permissions, and restrictions, you can provide appropriate staff access to manage your apps across your organisation.

This concludes our tour of the various areas of App Manager, and how to control user access to them.

Further information on the topics discussed can be found on the Ex Libris Knowledge Center.

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