View as user (View only)

Organizations participating in the Early Adopter Program (EAP) can enable some employees to view Blackbaud Education Management as though they were a specific student or advisee.

Users can't make changes or take action on the student's behalf while in this view. Consider using this to help troubleshoot or demonstrate many functions and content as seen by students or advisee.

Use security tasks to enable view only access.

  • View as my students (Task ID 55416) - Faculty can view as any of their students. They can't view students who aren't on their rosters.

  • View as my advisees (Task ID 55419) - Adviser can view as any of their advisees. They can't view students who aren't in their advisory.

  • View as any student (Task ID 55420) - System admins can view as any student. You can limit this by school level or enable them to view students from the entire school.

Use the People Finder to go to the user's profile in Core. Then select View as user. (See user profile.)

You can also use a school directory to access the user's Contact card or find them in your roster. Then select view as user.

A blue “banner” appears across the top of the user interface and reminds you who you're viewing as. When you're done, select End view as.

Tip: Need to take a screen shot or record a video? When you select an area to capture with your recording tool, select the area below the banner or crop the banner out when you edit.

Platform managers can view a history of which users have used View as user, who they viewed, and when. From Core, select Security, then select Impersonation history.

This data is stored for two years. After two years, the impersonation data history is purged. This data is removed when it is no longer relevant, in accordance with our data retention and security policies. For details, see Impersonation history.

Note: Social security numbers (SSN), credit cards, medical data, and other highly secured information is hidden from this view.