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For Universities

Empowering academic institutions with full sovereignty over their research narratives.

Onboarding Your University

1

Primary Admin Registration: A designated representative (e.g., from the communications or research office) signs up here as the primary administrator.

2

Institutional Verification: Our team reviews the application to verify the institutional authority. This process usually takes 1 business day.

3

Dashboard Access: Once verified, the primary admin gains full access to the comprehensive university dashboard.

3

Second User Onboarding: Once the university entity exists in our system, the users can create different departments and research labs and add people in them. Conversely, the user can sign up as a university staff from here and seek the permission to be added to their department or research lab or as a university staff.

Building Your Digital Ecosystem

Department Governance

Universities can enable or disable the "Can Publish" privilege for each department:

  • Enabled: The department can manage and push its own content live to the platform.
  • Disabled: Content must be pushed to University Staff for final review and publication.

Research Lab Workflow

Research Labs operate within a supervised workflow to ensure institutional accuracy:

Research Lab Staff Drafts
Department Staff Reviews + Publishes (If authorized)

Note: Labs always send content to their parent department or the university. If the department lacks publishing permissions, the content is needs to be submitted by the department to university staff.

Research Lab Draft
Department Admin Review
University Staff (Final Approval)

Roles & Scopes

University Staff

University-wide scope. Can oversee all departments, labs, and institutional settings.

Department Staff

Scope limited to their own department. Can manage labs and faculty within that department.

Research Lab Staff

Restricted to their assigned research lab. Cannot view or manage other entities.

Granular Permissions

News Management

Creator

Can create and edit news drafts. Cannot review others' drafts or publish.

Reviewer

Can create, edit, and review drafts submitted by creators.

Editor

Full control: Review and publish (If authorized), otherwise submit to Universities.

Team Management

Admin Permission: Users granted Admin status can add or remove members and modify roles/permissions for anyone within their designated scope.