This article provides detailed information on what it means to be an affiliated user of an organisation within the FifthDomain platform and how to navigate the platform as an affiliated user.
Affiliation plays a pivotal role on the FifthDomain platform by enabling users to establish an exclusive connection with a single organisation at any given time. This connection facilitates a more profound integration with the chosen organisation's ecosystem.
Being a user of the FifthDomain platform inherently means you possess the autonomy to engage in events across the platform, organised by any organisation, as long as you receive an invitation. Affiliation adds a distinct dimension by forging a specific link to an organisation, yet it does not compromise your autonomy to engage in activities hosted by various organisations. This ensures that the principle of open learning and active participation is upheld across the platform, allowing for unrestricted involvement in events by different organisations.
What does it mean to be affiliated to an organisation?
Access to Manager permissions
As an affiliated user within an organisation, you may receive managerial permissions, enabling you to oversee events, content, users, and insights related to that organisation.
Access to Hall of Fame
Affiliation with an organisation grants you entry to its Hall of Fame, essentially the organisation's leaderboard. The Hall of Fame pages highlight and celebrate the top 100 individuals and the top 100 teams associated with an organisation on the platform, ranked according to points. You can learn more about an organisation's Hall of Fame here.
Navigating FifthDomain platform as an Affiliated User
As previously noted, affiliated users may receive manager permissions within an organisation, enabling them to manage events, content, users, and insights, whilst also participating in platform-wide events.
This dual role of engaging in platform-wide events and managing within the affiliated organisation necessitates a bifurcated interface for an affiliated user.
By default, every user has access to the 'Participate' mode. However, an affiliated user who is granted one or more managerial permissions will gain access to the 'Manage' mode.
Participate Mode
On your homepage, the Organisation Name[1] chip will display your current affiliation. The default Participate mode[2] is what you'll encounter unless your affiliated organisation has endowed you with managerial permissions. From this mode, you have access to:
Home[3] : Participant Home page is the page from where you can access all the events that you have been invited to across organisations. Find more about
Skills[4] : The Skills Overview page allows you to view your cumulative skills and performance demonstrated across all the competitions and assessments you have participated in on the platform, and filter your view to see your skills and performance metric progression over time. Find more detail here.
My Teams[5]: The My Teams page is a page where you can view and/or manage all the FifthDomain competition teams that you are currently part of. On the My Teams page, you can also create new teams from scratch if you wish. Find more detail here.
Hall of Fame[6] : This is the only organisation specific page you will see in the Participate mode. You can learn more about an organisation's Hall of Fame here.
Switching between modes
If your affiliated organisation has granted you one or more Manager permissions, you will see an option to switch between Participate and Manage modes. Click on the Mode[1] dropdown and select from the two Options[2] to choose your preferred mode.
Manage Mode
What appears in this mode varies based on the Manager Permissions you've received. Such permissions encompass the creation and management of Events, Content (including challenges, Lab prototypes, VMs, etc.), Users, and Insights or Dashboards within your affiliated organisation. In Manage mode, you access the Manager Home page, distinct from the Participant Home page visible in Participate mode.
An image below shows what the left navigation in the Manage mode would look like if you had all the permissions granted:
