The Portal tab
The Portal tab links the server to your school or centre on Academium.
School or Centre
Shows your school (or centre) name, branch and administrator email.
Reset Admin Password sets a new password for your administrator account on the server. Enter your Academium password first to confirm it is you, then the new password twice.
Set Up School
Until the school is set up on the server, a box shows its progress:
| Message | What to do |
|---|---|
| School not set up yet | Click Set Up School |
| Setup incomplete or Setup error | Click Retry Setup |
| Server not ready | Start the server, wait a moment, then click ↺ |
Content Library
The Content Library is your question bank as downloaded from Academium: the number of Questions, Subjects, Topics and Passages, with a breakdown By exam body (WAEC, NECO, JAMB…) and by Recent years.
- It downloads by itself after setup, and keeps itself up to date.
- Click Sync Now to fetch new questions straight away.
- Pause and Resume a download that is slowing down the network.
The server must be running to download. A big first download can take a while on a slow connection, and carries on from where it stopped if the connection drops.
Academium SMS Connection
Schools that also use Academium SMS see how the two are linked.
- Local: your SMS server is at the school. The link is made by itself when both servers are running. It shows Server online or Server offline for the SMS server.
- Portal: your SMS is on the Academium portal. Click Set Up SMS Sync once. The server then keeps a copy of your school's SMS records and keeps it up to date. Click Sync Now to update it straight away.
Factory Reset
Factory Reset stops the server and permanently deletes all school data on this computer: students, results, questions and settings. The server goes back to a clean state and has to be set up again.
The server backs up your school's data first, but treat this as a last resort. Contact Academium support before you use it.
Common problems
The Content Library does not appear. It appears once the school is set up on the server.
"Portal account disconnected." The server's link to your account was removed, for example because the same account was used to set up another server. Sign in again on the Portal tab.