Managing user templates: overview

Each user folder has a template associated with it. When you create a user, you can choose whether to use that folder's associated template or select a different template. This provides you with an easy way to create users with properties in common. You can also apply a different template to users to update their properties, for example, to change Year 5 students to Sixth Form students to enable them to access additional features of your network.

Changing a template's properties does not change the properties of the users currently in the folder, unless you re-apply the template. However, any users that you add to the folder will inherit the new template properties.

Also, at a later date, you can apply a template to selected users to change their properties in one step.