The Multi-Site access feature simplifies school management for Multi-Academy Trusts. Staff with MAT parent site credentials can seamlessly access any linked school website (child site) without needing separate logins. This eliminates the hassle of remembering multiple usernames and passwords, saving valuable time and effort.
If you manage a group of websites, and would like to make use of this feature, please get in touch so that it can be enabled for you.
Giving Permission to multi-site login
Multi-site access can be added to any of the standard roles (Administrator, Publisher or Writer).
To add permissions:
- Go to the Home Tab> User Manager
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Select the role you would like to add permissions to (Administrator, Publisher or Writer)
NB If the MAT parent site user has a custom, rather than a standard role, the user will not be able to switch to the linked site via MAT Multi-site access.
- Click Edit on the right hand panel
- Click Child Sites in the list of permissions on the left
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Set the toggle in the centre panel to Allow
- Click Save changes to update the Role permissions
Dealing with Existing school/child site logins
Manually added account on a child site:
If a user has an existing account on the linked school/child site, that was created outside of this method, the user will not be able to switch to the linked site via MAT Multi-site login.
To allow multi-site login, you will need to login to the child site and remove the manually created account.
Single Sign-on on a Child Site
If Microsoft or Google SSO has been setup on both the parent site and the linked site, the user will not be able to switch to a linked site.
To allow multi-site login, an administrator will need to login to the child site and remove Single Sign-on.