DEC Portal User
Management Tools
…that you can use!
Management Tools in DEC Portal
The link at the top of the your DET Portal to My Applications provides you
with many tools you can use to manage DEC systems for your school
EMU under the section
starting with ‘E’ is a tool used for bulk management of student
passwords and also to produce usage reports
AMU is used for
authorising staff to use systems like OASIS, EMU, ERN, BlogEd, SBSR and AMU itself The AMU tool is by default ONLY provided to
the Principal, but it can be delegated to others such as the CC and the School Admin Manager
Educational Mgmt Utility
If you have a link to EMU on your DET Portal, you can open the Education Management Utility
User Management offers bulk
password resetting based on groups of students
The Reports section lets you see which students have not
User Management (Students)
Only your school will be shown here
You can search by Roll Class or Year Group
You can also work with just one student if you wish
EMU Search Results
The selected grouping will be displayed and can be sorted by any
of the column headers shown
You can select Export to save the screen contents to Excel or a CSV file
You can see which students have had their Internet Account Suspended, and you can change
the setting here
You can perform a bulk password change for all or part of the
grouping listed here You can select just one student and reset their password
Bulk Password Reset
When you click Reset Bulk Pwd on the previous screen, this screen
is displayed
You can now select any or all students in
the group list by ticking the appropriate
boxes
You can type in the password you’d like all selected students to have in
this box
EMU Reports
When you click Reports, this screen is displayed
Again, you can search by Roll Class or Year Group The Report options
Last Log In Report
This column identifies the last date and time each student logged on either to the Student
Portal or to use the Internet This column is only relevant to
schools like the campuses of Sydney Secondary College, where the students logon to DET’s EDU domain, rather than their own local domain
Students listed as NEVER LOGGED ON or not logged on
since last year may be having a problem, such as a forgotten
User Management (Staff)
You have some Staff Search Utilities
You have some Staff Management Utilities (Password Resets)
You have access to some Staff Reports you can print
Staff Password Reset
Click Staff Management, then Reset Password
Find the Staff Member(s) that need their password reset
Click Search and their names will appear below. Click each name to set a new password.
SO HOW DO YOU GET
ACCESS TO EMU and SMU
IF THEY ARE NOT ON
YOUR PORTAL??
Access Management Utility
(AMU)
To start with, each Principal only gets access to AMU for their
own school
This is used to manage
who is allowed to
authorise what system
This is used to manage
who is allowed to use OASIS Thin Client
This is used to manage
who is allowed to use
the SMU tool For non-eT4L schools,
this is used to manage
who is allowed to
install software from
the CPC server. For
eT4L schools, it identifies which staff groups each person
belongs to
This is used to manage
who is allowed to use the EMU tool
This is used to manage
who is allowed to use
the RMU tool to manage DER Laptops
in a high school This is used to manage
who is allowed to use BlogEd and what level
Authorised EMU Users
These tick boxes are used to specify which staff can have
access to USE the EMU system via their DET Portal.
This adds an EMU link to each selected person’s portal
Access can be granted and revoked
using this webpage
It is recommended that only select staff
are given access to EMU. As discussed,
an audit trail is maintained for EMU
password changes
These tick boxes are used to specify which staff can also suspend a student’s Internet and Email Access using the EMU tool. This would be done
in the case of breaches of the Internet Usage Policy
Authorised SMU Users
These tick boxes are used to specify which staff can have
access to USE the SMU system via their DET Portal.
This adds an EMU link to each selected person’s portal
Access can be granted and revoked
using this webpage
It is recommended that only select staff
are given access to SMU. As discussed,
an audit trail is maintained for SMU
password changes
IMPORTANT NOTE!
SMU contains private details of each staff member including home phone and
OASIS User Settings
These tick boxes are used to specify which staff can have
access to USE OASIS Thin Client via their DEC Portal
Access to use OASIS Admin, Library and Library Enquiry (or for small schools, Adlib)
can be set independently
Access can be granted and revoked using this webpage
OASIS Security Permissions are NOT set here. They are part of the OASIS Operators
Setting Authorisers in AMU
AMU Authoriser permissions can be added or revoked using this screen. NOTE the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom – there are more applications
to set authority for to the right.
Placing a tick in any of these boxes will create a link to AMU on
that person’s portal. This list is for identifying which staff are allowed to AUTHORISE
others for the
use of these systems
It is strongly
recommended
that only selected staff are set as
AUTHORISERS
Eg. The SAM might be OASIS
Authoriser and
the CC might be
EMU & SBSR Authoriser
Internet Filter Tools
Provides a link to two
useful Internet Filtering
tools
On the My Applications
tab, further down, you’ll
find “Internet Filtering –
Internet Filter Tools
Web Filter Check is a
handy tool that all staff can
use to see if a website
they’d like to use in class
is blocked or not for their
students.
To find out about how DEC
filters work, click here.
Also provides links to log a
service desk request to
either block or unblock
Blocking and Unblocking Sites
If you have found an
inappropriate site that
needs to be blocked or
would like a currently
blocked site unblocked,
click here:
Find out about how DEC
Blocking and Unblocking Sites
Type the reason for your
request. Why should this site
be blocked or unblocked? For
unblocking, provide
educational reasons
Enter the exact website
URL to be blocked or
unblocked
Then select whether you’d like
to Allow or Block a specific
URL (website)
Before completing this form,
you will be asked to enter your
DEC portal ID.
A Service Desk call will then be
logged in your name. Block
requests are usually done
within 12 hours. Unblocks take
Web Filter Check
This is a handy tool all teachers can
use to identify whether they sites
they wish to use in class with their
students are available or blocked.
The resulting report can
either be displayed for you
on the next screen, or you
can choose to have it
emailed to your mailbox
Simply enter as many website URLs
as you’d like to check (copy/paste
them), one line per URL
Web Filter Check
For your particular school
type, it will show the
Allow/Block status for that
specified website against
each year group at your
school, plus for staff.
This is general information
about the site, including the
site categories
This is the check report that is
displayed on the screen
While a site may be
unblocked for you, it can
be very frustrating to find
that students cannot
access it in the classroom.
This tool helps avoid that
frustration.
Principal’s Network Information
Traffic Reports provide
details of most visited
websites, busiest internet
computers at the school
and other useful reports
It provides usage reports and
graphs of the school’s Internet
usage across time periods
This tool is only in the
Principal’s DEC Portal
This very useful tool can
help the school to identify
how (well) the Internet is
being used. Perhaps
suggest to the Principal to
Get to know these tools!
