User Groups & Permissions

Sample view of User Groups & Permissions page

The User Groups and permissions screen, is one of the most commonly used screens for Union Administrators. It contains all of the default permission groups created by Union Cloud on your behalf, the groups students are placed into by default. It also stores the sub sections for viewing group (Club & Society) membership groups (Administrators, Current, Alumni etc.), Events group lists, halls group lists, programme names, and their membership counts, demographic groups, and importantly Custom groups

Union

The Union Sub Menu These groups here are some of the most important, and also the groups that users will be placed into automatically upon registration / upload / expiry.

Name	Description
Activated Students	This group is empty by default, and you can't upload users to it, Confirmed Students, move to this group, after logging in for the first time.
Administrator	This is the Default Union Administrator group, who have permissions to manage all website content.
Alumni	This group is empty by default, but once a users course date expires, they move out of Confirmed Students, and into Alumni.
Confirmed Students	This group is populate by data upload, and is the group of students that you are confirming you know are students, this can then be used for elections etc.
Deleted Students	Explanation
Non Students	This group is populated by anybody that registers with a non-university email address and can't confirm they are a student.
Staff	Explanation
Students Waiting for University Email Access	Explanation
Volunteering Organisations	Explanation
Volunteering Students	Explanation