We've been talking a lot about features lately. Now, how to use some of them in real life.
Say you're a publisher of textbooks or other teaching materials. You're good at selling to schools, but you need an efficient and secure way to get digital products into the hands of students after the sale. Tizra gives you a number of ways to get this done (in addition to built-in ecommerce for self-serve credit card sales), but today we'll focus on a new option built around the batch account loader, which makes it as simple as copy and paste. Note that second and third steps below only need to be done the first time you set up…
1. Add and Tag Users
Use the new batch account loader to load and tag email addresses for the students who should have access (if you don't have emails, there are other options we'll cover in future posts). Pick a tag that's short and easy to remember. For example, if you want to arrange access to a book called Knowledge 101 during the upcoming fall term, you could use a tag like "kno101-fa2011." (Once you create the tag, you'll be able to select it from a picker so it's easy to standardize.)
2. Create an Account Set
Account Sets let you create groups of users based on their tags. To create one for the users just tagged, go to USERS > Account Sets in the control panel, then click "Create New…" You'll get a screen like the one below, into which you can enter a name for the set, like "Knowledge 101, Fall 2011." Then you can define who should be included by using the tag picker to add the "kno101-fa2011" tag in the appropriate filtering field (presumably "Matching All" in this case). Click "Save" and you'll see the filtered list of users at the bottom of the screen.
3. Add a License
By adding one of Tizra's highly flexible content Licenses to the Account Set, you can control what content its members will have access to, and for how long. Click "Create New…" under the Set Licenses heading, and you'll get a dialog that lets you select from any content Collection or Offer on the site. Once the License is created, you can just click on it to get the editing dialog shown below, which lets you adjust options including Duration of access (which will automatically begin counting down when the user first views the content), number of Concurrent Sessions (so you can sell group licenses and restrict unauthorized sharing of logins) and whether or not users have access to downloadable versions of the book or supplemental materials. Once the license is added, members of the set will automatically have appropriate access.
4. Repeat…skipping steps 2 & 3
Once you've got things set up as above, all you need to do to authorize new users is load and tag them as in Step 1.
Say you're a publisher of textbooks or other teaching materials. You're good at selling to schools, but you need an efficient and secure way to get digital products into the hands of students after the sale. Tizra gives you a number of ways to get this done (in addition to built-in ecommerce for self-serve credit card sales), but today we'll focus on a new option built around the batch account loader, which makes it as simple as copy and paste. Note that second and third steps below only need to be done the first time you set up…
1. Add and Tag Users
Use the new batch account loader to load and tag email addresses for the students who should have access (if you don't have emails, there are other options we'll cover in future posts). Pick a tag that's short and easy to remember. For example, if you want to arrange access to a book called Knowledge 101 during the upcoming fall term, you could use a tag like "kno101-fa2011." (Once you create the tag, you'll be able to select it from a picker so it's easy to standardize.)
2. Create an Account Set
Account Sets let you create groups of users based on their tags. To create one for the users just tagged, go to USERS > Account Sets in the control panel, then click "Create New…" You'll get a screen like the one below, into which you can enter a name for the set, like "Knowledge 101, Fall 2011." Then you can define who should be included by using the tag picker to add the "kno101-fa2011" tag in the appropriate filtering field (presumably "Matching All" in this case). Click "Save" and you'll see the filtered list of users at the bottom of the screen.
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| Filtering users into an account set. |
By adding one of Tizra's highly flexible content Licenses to the Account Set, you can control what content its members will have access to, and for how long. Click "Create New…" under the Set Licenses heading, and you'll get a dialog that lets you select from any content Collection or Offer on the site. Once the License is created, you can just click on it to get the editing dialog shown below, which lets you adjust options including Duration of access (which will automatically begin counting down when the user first views the content), number of Concurrent Sessions (so you can sell group licenses and restrict unauthorized sharing of logins) and whether or not users have access to downloadable versions of the book or supplemental materials. Once the license is added, members of the set will automatically have appropriate access.
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| Setting license terms for members of the set. |
Once you've got things set up as above, all you need to do to authorize new users is load and tag them as in Step 1.
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