Recommended eVA Profile and Permission Sets

It is important to note that anyone assigned by institution as assigned Global Administrator will have the ability to invite and remove other Global Administrators. We encourage you to be selective in assigning this role to new individuals.

What eVA Organisation Administrators can do: 

• As an eVA Organisation Administrator, your role is to enable staff and employees of your organisation (who are acting as hosts) to give visitors temporary access to eduroam by creating profiles that match your staff by either role (“staff”) or by email address. 

• You can create accounts using the eVA online portal: https://eva.eduroam.nz. There is nothing to be installed - all you need is an Internet browser. 

• Creation of 1 -Day SMS Events which give users a temporary self-service eduroam account daily, using an SMS keyword valid for one (1) day of access.  

• Create a poster to promote the 1-Day SMS Events which can be displayed in strategic locations around the campus or institution or as an HTML page on tablets or other screen displays. 

Note: Designated staff at your organisation will also have access to this intuitive web portal (based on profile permissions), which allows them to allocate temporary eduroam accounts to their visitors.  

You are the point of contact for all support of eVA users at your organisation. However, should you  require additional support or have any questions, you can contact REANNZ by e-mail at  help@reanz.co.nz. REANNZ is the Global Administrator which is the admin over everything in eVA. 

Recommended eVA Profile and Permission Sets

There are four (5) different users that will be referred to in this document: 

• Global Administrator (REANNZ) 
  This role sits within REANNZ. Only Global Administrator can fully manage Organisation Administrators. Revoking of Organisation Administrator privileges is also the responsibility of the role. 

• Organisation Administrator (IT staff, Technical contact) 
  This role will be granted by REANNZ to the designated Primary Technical Contact at your organisation. Organisation Administrator(s) are responsible for the creation and management of user profiles for the organisation. They can only invite or add another Organisation Administrator. This role gets the permissions only after creating a profile granting privileges to itself.  

Please refer to the section about Create and Configure User Profile below. 

• Power User(s) (Office Admins, Event Managers or Organisers) 
  This role is created by the Organisation Administrator(s) has richer set of eVA features that can create batch or group accounts and be able to create SMS events.  

• Standard User(s) (Staff, Employee) 
  This role is created by the Organisation Administrator(s) has the basic ability to create individual visitor accounts up to the maximum number and duration assigned by the administrator.  

• Visitor (External people, non eduroam affiliated) 
  These are the individuals that are granted a temporary account or visitor access to eduroam. They do not need to login to the portal. 

Note: As an eVA Organisation Administrator, you have discretion in setting the user profiles for your organisation. To ease the process of creating and managing group accounts and SMS Events, you may wish to provide these richer permission sets to a limited number of “Power User(s)”, while  allowing regular staff and employees the ability to create a small number of individual accounts for a  constrained time-frame.  

An example profile configuration could be as follows: 

Note: The Organisation Admin contact should be provided by the institution. All other use profiles can be created by the Organisation Admin once access has been granted to eVA.