ABS Elevate documentation
The user manual for ABS Elevate, the learning platform of Africa Business School — for learners and for the people who run programs.
This is the user manual for ABS Elevate, the learning platform of Africa Business School.
It is written for the people who use the platform: learners following a program, and the program officers and academic staff who run one. It explains screens, actions, rules and consequences — what you can do, what happens when you do it, and what to do when something does not go as expected.
A manual in progress
Seven articles are finished, alongside this page: Introduction, Key concepts, Signing in, Shortlist and credits, Main list and waiting list, Wishlist and the Glossary.
Every other page in the sidebar is a placeholder. They are listed so the navigation is complete and so you can see what is coming, and each one says as much when you open it. If a link from a finished article lands you on one, the article it names is still being written — you have not gone somewhere wrong.
Start here
If ABS Elevate is new to you, read these three pages in order. They take about twenty minutes together and everything else assumes them.
Introduction
What ABS Elevate is, who uses it, and how this manual is organised.
Key concepts
Program, cohort, catalog, credits, registration window, shortlist, main list and waiting list. The page everything else depends on.
Signing in
Where to go, the three ways to sign in, and what to do about a forgotten password.
The five sections
Getting started
The platform, its vocabulary, signing in, and who is allowed to do what.
For learners
Your programs and courses, the catalog, registration windows, credits and your shortlist, grades, communities and support.
For administrators
Programs and cohorts, catalogs and offerings, registration windows, planning and allocation, classes, people, gradebooks and fees.
Guides
Start-to-finish walkthroughs of the tasks that span several screens, such as running a registration window.
Reference
The glossary, frequently asked questions, what each role can do, and troubleshooting.
Finding things
Use the search box at the top of any page. It searches the whole manual in the language you are currently reading, and every page here exists in both English and French — the language switcher keeps you on the same article.
If you are looking for the meaning of a single word rather than a whole procedure, go straight to the Glossary.