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Lab for Platform Admins

As a platform admin you manage the content and operational side of the Lab: modules, lessons, tasks, session monitoring, and platform-wide settings.

This section describes end-user-facing admin tasks – not the server or infrastructure administration, which is documented internally.

Topics in this section

  • Sessions & operations

    Monitor active sessions, kill switch, recognize anomalies.

    Sessions & ops

  • Maintain content

    Create and edit modules, lessons, and tasks.

    Content

  • Settings

    Platform-wide quotas, session duration, terms versions.

    Settings

Prerequisite

You have an admin account with access to the admin panel at techlogia.de/admin. The Lab management is in the left menu under "Lab".

What a platform admin sees

  • All modules, lessons, tasks – including drafts not visible to learners
  • All active sessions – platform-wide, with learner account, VM state, runtime
  • All schools, teachers, and classes – read-only (except for schools you create)
  • Platform settings – quotas, session duration, terms versions, cost rates

What a platform admin typically does not do

  • Delete student accounts manually – students use self-service (GDPR Art. 17). Manual deletion only on legal request.
  • Intervene in individual student VMs – VMs are isolated. For abuse suspicion, use the kill switch or account suspension.
  • Create classes or homework – that's a teacher task. For testing, use a dedicated test account.

Responsibility

As a platform admin you have far-reaching rights:

  • Content changes take effect immediately for all learners (except for published=false).
  • Kill switch terminates all sessions platform-wide – emergency only.
  • Terms changes force re-acceptance by all learners.

For each impactful change: clarify context first (team alignment, notify teachers if needed), document afterwards (short entry in the operations log).

Quick start

If you are new to the role, read in this order:

  1. Sessions & operations – so you know how to use the kill switch in an emergency.
  2. Settings – so you understand global parameters (quota, session TTL).
  3. Maintain content – so you can create your own modules, lessons, tasks.

Note: Detail pages are primarily in German.