Getting Started as an Administrator Guide

Hi there! So you're the staff member who is the designated admin for your organization. This guide will tell you what that means. First though, make sure you've read through the regular Getting Started Guide before reading this one.

Every organization (not collaborative) in Volunteer.Legal has one associated staff user designated as the "Organization Account Administrator". This Admin User has a few added abilities, but their primary function is to approve new Volunteer.Legal staff user accounts for their organization. When someone tries to create a staff account on Volunteer.Legal, that account will be "pending" until it is approved by the Admin User of the related organization. Until the new account is approved, it cannot be logged into. If the new account is not approved within 48 hours, it is automatically deleted. This is the primary security measure preventing unauthorized access to Volunteer.Legal's staff section.

How do I tell who the Organization Account Administrator is for my organization?
You can see the designated Organization Account Administrator for your organization by logging in to Volunteer.Legal and navigating to your organization's settings page: done by selecting the "Settings" tab in the left-hand menu bar, selecting the "Organization" sub tab in the left-hand menu bar, and scrolling down to view the staff user designated as the "Organization Account Administrator."

When a new organization is added to Volunteer.Legal, the first user account created in association with that organization will automatically be made the "Organization Account Administrator." As the Organization Account Administrator, that user's first duty will be approving their own pending user account. This is the same process that they will need to go through in order to approve any other user's account.

After an organization account on Volunteer.Legal has been set up, any staff user associated with that organization can edit the organization's settings to change the Organization Account Administrator to any other staff user associated with that organization. To do this, navigate to your organization's settings page and click "edit".

Because any staff user associated with an organization can make themselves the Organization Account Administrator at any time, it is not an added "privilege" to be the Admin User, it is just an added responsibility.

Powers of the Organization Account Administrator

 * 1) Approve new staff user accounts associated with your organization.
 * 2) * How to add staff member accounts to your organization
 * 3) Deactivate existing staff user accounts, which prevents anyone from logging into them.
 * 4) * How to remove a staff member from an organization
 * 5) Activate existing deactivated staff user accounts, which allows them to be logged into again.
 * 6) * How to activate a deactivated staff user account associated with your organization