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Admin permissions — who can access which schools 4 min read Every admin in your trust can access every school by default. This page is where you see that at a glance across the whole trust, and reduce an individual admin to a subset of schools where you need to. It's in the MAT o... App defaults — set Launchpad apps for the whole trust 8 min read Which apps appear in a person's smartpanel is set per school. When you run 65+ schools, configuring them one at a time is a lot of repeated work. This page lets you set the apps once at trust level and apply them to ever... Apply sync settings across the trust 9 min read If you run a multi-academy trust, you often want the same sync set-up at every school: the same services switched on, one AD structure, the same Entra options, the same Apple format. Two trust-level areas in MAT overview... Find a user across schools 4 min read The Find a user page lets you search for any person across all the schools you can reach, from one screen. It is a trust-level admin page. Learners and mentors never see it, and neither do admins whose account reaches on... Look at one school from the MAT overview 4 min read Sometimes you only want to see how a school is doing: is its sync healthy, what went wrong last night, who changed a setting. The MAT overview lets you do that without switching school. Your own tab stays in MAT mode, so... MAT Multisite 5 min read Overview MAT Multisite links the separate websites of the schools in a multi-academy trust. Once linked, a school (usually the trust's central site) can: publish a news post to other schools — ticking the schools in the... MAT Nav Menus 4 min read Overview MAT Nav Menus lets a multi-academy trust keep one list of shared links — trust policies, governance, trust vacancies — on the trust's central website. Those links are offered in a MAT Menus box on Appearance → M... MAT overview dashboard 7 min read The MAT overview is your trust-level home screen. It is for admins who can reach more than one school. If your account only reaches one school, the school switcher shows just that school's name and there is no MAT overvi... MAT sync status — sync health across every school 4 min read A school's own Sync status page covers one school. In MAT mode, the same sidebar item opens MAT sync status: one row per school you can reach, so you can see which schools need attention without opening each one. Before... Merge duplicate user accounts 14 min read Use Merge users to combine two accounts that belong to the same person. This works in two contexts, using exactly the same tool: Within a single school — two duplicate records for the same pupil or staff member in the sc... Merge history and undo 5 min read Merge history is the record of every user merge you've run, and the place to undo one if it turns out to be a mistake. The page itself is titled Merge audit log ("Review and undo past user merges") — one page, two names.... Shared Google domain trusts (trust-level authority) 4 min read Some trusts run one Google domain for every school — so [email protected] is a single Google account, even though Sam is a separate record in School A, School B and School C. The problem this solves Sync runs per school... Sharing with your trust 6 min read Overview Sharing works in both directions. Your trust can share posts, pages and alerts with its schools (Trust content on your website). Your school can also offer its own posts, events and vacancies to the trust's webs... Smart School Directory 5 min read Overview Smart School Directory (shown in the plugin list as WP School Locator) adds a public school finder to your website: an interactive map with a pin for each school, and a list beside it that visitors can search by... Switch school context 3 min read Use the school switcher to change which school you are working in, or to return to the MAT overview. Steps Step 1 — Find the school switcher The school switcher is in the top bar, just to the right of the Realsmart logo... Trace a user's activity across the trust 5 min read A person can have an account in more than one school in your trust. When something goes wrong for them, such as a Google account not provisioning or an Entra error, you would otherwise open each school's logs separately... Trust content on your website 6 min read Overview If your school belongs to a multi-academy trust, the trust can share news posts, pages and alerts with its schools from its own website. Whatever it shares with your school appears on your website by itself, usu... Trust Hub 17 min read Overview Trust Hub is a dashboard on a multi-academy trust's own website, for the trust's central team. Open it on a Monday morning and it shows, in a few seconds, how the trust's school websites are doing, which schools... Understanding MAT mode and school context 3 min read ADAdmin is built for trusts with more than one school. How you work depends on whether you are at the MAT level or inside one specific school. The school switcher at the top of every page, just to the right of the Realsm... When not to merge — people still at, or working at, another school 3 min read Merge users is for combining two records that are the same account by mistake. Two situations look like duplicates but aren't, and merging doesn't do what you'd want in either. If this person is still at the other school... Which password a merged user keeps 3 min read On the Compare step of Merge users, the Password row decides which account's password the merged user signs in with. Passwords are a choice like any other field, but the values are never shown. What the Password row show...