The full weConnect admin guide (or Admin UI) is available through KnowledgeBase articles. Below you can find the links to all the different articles:
- weConnect - System introduction and background information
- weConnect - Simplified connectivity overview
- weConnect - Overview of network connections and bandwidth loads
- weConnect - Upgrade methodology
- weConnect - Administration user interface overview
- weConnect - General menu in the admin UI
- weConnect - Managers menu in the admin UI
- weConnect - Authentication menu in admin UI
- weConnect - Users and Usergroup menu in admin UI
- weConnect - Theme menu in admin UI
- weConnect - Locations menu in admin UI
- weConnect - How to pair devices (nodes)
- weConnect - Devices menu in admin interface
- weConnect Classroom configuration
- weConnect - Overflow room configuration
- weConnect - Virtual classroom configuration
- weConnect V2.14 Breakout room
- weConnect - Audio setup and calibration
- weConnect - Lecture Management
These articles explain how to use the weConnect Admin UI to set up, control and monitor a weConnect institute. You will learn how to manage users, configure locations and classrooms, manage how users log in with or without Single Sign-On (SSO) integration and how to monitor devices.
The articles were primarily written as a guide to set up an institute according to the best practices we have collected. We highly recommend following the weConnect training provided by Barco University to become a specialist and expert in weConnect before starting a new weConnect institute from scratch.
Setting up a new institute can be started as soon as you have received access to the Admin UI. You do not have to wait for hardware deliveries. On the contrary, the fastest way to configure an institute is to perform the first steps as soon as possible. Each step has one or more dedicated articles.
The typical installation flow is to start setting up the authentication methods. A separate integration document is available explaining how to integrate SSO within your institute.
At this point, you might want to set up user groups and maybe create special user accounts for cloud administration use.
Next, we propose to configure the locations in the system. Locations represent the physical layout of the institute. Users will come into contact with this. The naming as such should be comprehensible for teachers and students. And the structure should be future-proof, i.e. ready for future expansion.
These first steps can be done before any equipment has been delivered. After these steps, we suggest focusing on making the IT department aware and ready to receive the display nodes on the network. Please consult the network design article as a guide for this step. weConnect - network design
Now is also the moment to make sure that (HA) proxy servers have been set up to ensure a smooth integration of the hardware into the system.
Once the display nodes have arrived, the device configuration can take place.
The peripheral configuration is ideally the next step to make sure that the basic physical install can be completed.
Finally, room configuration allows you configure multiple room types to each physical room so that the system functions as intended and the required flexibility.
