Hey everybody. How's it going? Hello? Long time no see. Yeah, it's been feels like years. Gosh and my cats are still Eerily and blurrily behind me And they will probably say that way for a while active participants. They want to learn They're here to learn. You're excited. A lot of active shadows in the background for sure. So awesome. Okay, so we're gonna go through each part of Domain of one's own and what makes up the the process and account creation Management all that good stuff through the main WordPress portal the WHM CS instance, which stands for web host management client system Something like that. There's all sorts of acronyms going around with it and WHM, which is web host manager Which is the server portion of the site So we'll go in depth for about an hour on this and then we'll move into the recorded sessions which go into more depth More in more in detail on specific processes and all of that stuff. So Whenever we're ready Amanda, you want to jump in to WordPress? Yeah Let's do it. All right. So That we're I'm gonna go through a lot of us are gonna be using this demo School that we have institution that we have set up so we call it State University and this is kind of a massive site because we use it to allow people trials and To go in and play around it. It's literally called a playground for learning. So I'm just gonna use this to walk you through what the domain of one's own WordPress interface looks like as Meredith said this is the first the forward-facing interface Amongst the three systems that make up the entire domain of one's own project platform and so To many of you here this probably looks very familiar you either have Something extremely similar to this for your own domain of one's own setup or you saw it before you played around with it and made it look much different maybe and so I Am already logged in as an admin so you can see this very detailed dashboard at the top essentially what this is is a WordPress wrapper around What's going to be see panel when we get into that section as well And so all of this is going to have a very word-pressy feel to it So You have a couple tabs on the homepage here this homepage tab Where we have it set up so that you can go ahead and get started if this is your first time visiting And then there is a dashboard tab and a documentation tab And before I go into those I will Show you some other things first so you can see it from a user perspective so Let's start by going into the admin tab here which will take you to a very familiar looking word-press dashboard and So you can see in here again, it's robust and one of the first things we can look at is the Plugins that kind of set up your view in this platform interface as well as The capabilities that you have as well as that your users have So this is something obviously that is only visible to the admins regular users are not going to see this section and that is Enabled by this removed dashboard access plugin So when a typical user is signed in they will have a little bar up here But it will be extremely limited with the types of places and views that they can access We also have This there's this little blur user info you won't have that I have that And you'll see what it does, but it's essentially just keeping everything private when we go in to look at users but Other things are like gravity forms That is something that we have been using the past year or so to replace ninja forms For things like sign up and so we'll go a bit into that and we have another very powerful That's my cat another very powerful plugin that we use is this user switching plugin which allows us to as Administrators go into and kind of spoof as our our user's accounts and see what's going on from their perspective in the word prep through the WordPress interface so the first thing we can do here is Go ahead and look at Let's look at Let's look at the users So as you can see this is all blurred It's for privacy and because we have a lot of a lot of people here We've got you know over five thousand new users again These are areas that are really important for you to keep track of so you know your your numbers How many people you have signed up? because there are our limits with certain project plans and So you can see the username their display name their email and then their role and Depending on how you have things set up a Very popular way to approach domain of one zone is to have a sign-up process And so this process is accomplished through gravity forms where you can have your users sign up through single sign-on and and Kind of be kept in this limbo space depending on how you set it up where their role here is Defaulted to like a subscriber role so that they have very limited access until you give them access so if you have the sign-up form you can ask them to Justify, you know what they're using it for If that matters to you or if you just want to see how What people what people are using it for and you don't need to make a judgment call But you still want to kind of keep track of everyone who's who's coming in Then you can go in and manually switch their roles. So if this particular user We wanted to change their role We would select the user and if they were a subscriber we would bump them up to author, but they're already author So that's fine and then once they're an author they're able to do things like create a site and Get going with cPanel and their dashboard We're gonna go more into What actually happens behind the scenes when we go into the WHMCS portion of this session? Because this whole WordPress interface is interacting directly with WHMCS Which is then interacting with the server. So all of it is connected Yeah, and just to quickly add on You'll note that everybody here is an author We didn't go in and manually change all 5,000 of these people So if you don't want to deal with that manual Step you can just say, you know what make everybody an author. I this is This is getting that data is great, but it I don't have Time in my day to go in and approve every submission Yeah, and if you have a plan that can accommodate that and your project is not something that is Super widespread throughout campus so that it's like everyone It's gonna be using it at some point and it's kind of for a select group Then that could be the most efficient way to do things. You don't want to make things harder for yourself. Yeah Yeah, do you want to go through and show how we can change the default role? Really quick before we go into that Yeah, yeah, so that that's under settings Down towards the bottom and then under general or users Yeah under new default user role or you new user default role if you switch that to Subscriber that is when when the user signs in through SSO They'll be prompted to fill out that user request form and then when we when you switch them to author They'll automatically be shown the sign-up form, which is then the communication between WHM CS and WHM Then to embed the cPanel dashboard after sign up So author is important to see the cPanel dashboard But you can pick whichever option you want subscribers or author as you sign up on that side Yeah, and as you add admins as well You would follow the same process I showed earlier Where you go to that specific user who signed up who's your admin Select them specifically and then you can change their role right from this screen. Yep Cool anything else about users we want to touch on I think that's everything so Moving on then we're going to implement that plug-in that I mentioned earlier of user switching So this is where things are going to get pretty pretty cool pretty techie Without you having to really understand what's going on. So I'm going to go ahead and look up my account Here which is all blurred, but it's me And I'm going you can hover over this section where the username is and you get these various options, but the last one here should be switched to and again, that should be Added by default as part of your word press that up with domain of one's own and so as I switched in here you may have noticed that my role was author and in this scenario I as a user had already gone in and signed up my my subdomain for my domain of one's own membership and Selected reclaim Amanda dot state you dot org so if you have subdomains as you're set up on domain of one's own then That's kind of what your students will look like What they'll be able to choose right off the bat and As you can see I am popped right into a cPanel and I still have my word press looking Toolbar right at the top, but it's obviously very Limited based on you know compared to what we saw earlier when we were in admin and This is really where students can students and users depending on who your users are I always default to students in my head because when I was a an administrator was Students on the campus that I was working on so But you may just have faculty or staff or whoever but they will have this view here and We are able to play around a little bit with this view. So if you didn't want Like email to be an option for your users Then there is a way to turn that off and we have documentation for that and you can always message us about it to ask and Then if you you know turn that off It will not even show up. It won't even show up as this little email tab. It will just be completely gone so that you can give your users a more focused and narrow Pathway through their cPanel depending on what how you want them to use it Awesome. Um, we can go through looking at signing up if you want sure We can switch back to the main administrator and then we can use one of my Accounts on state you to show what the sign-up form looks like once you're embedded Right and while you were you know in already signed up account, you know, that's also where you are able to go in and Really dig deep on it in a troubleshooting level to see exactly what might be going on if they're having issues, so Right to to a sign-up page Page where you would register that subdomain But this is for our admin. Do you still want to go to your? User Meredith. No, that's perfect. That's exactly what the view would look like for a new student So you're able to select your specific Domain name you can even all you can even designate the the subdomain itself So if you want to utilize your single sign-on username as your subdomain for organization We can also set that up for you to auto-fill based on your The user's single sign-on. So that's also really really easy there. Yeah, I just Quickly noting that this is what you'll see if you're an author This is there's sort of the request form and the sign-up form and the request form Is for submitting that. Hey, can I have this When you're a subscriber giving that sort of description of your project data This is once they've been approved the actual form that they will use to set up their account So This is not the place where you would Be collecting that sort of Initial project data right So they're able to Select their subdomain here. So I just used reclaim admin And then this is already auto-filled to state dot state u.org and then from here You will select the check button because it has to check and make sure that no one else has that domain that subdomain and Then it will have you review your selection so that you know for sure that I you know You want to use reclaim admin dot state u.org and it's good to be sure about this Before going forward because it can be a little bit of a hassle to change And you can either start over or continue And then it's going to have this sign-up section And it's going to provide an address for confirmation. This is probably just going to be a university address for all of your users They don't have to put in their specific addresses It'll just be associated with the college or the institution and then complete sign-up And this is going to take a little bit just a few seconds because this is where it's doing a lot of very hard work integrating this new site that it's setting up into the rest of the system that we're talking about in this section session so it's Starting things up in whmcs And as you can see we're popped into another c-panel something that you might notice right off the bat is that scary red section over here And that's saying this is a self-sign certificate and it had a little lock, but it's unlocked and that's very Can be jarring. You don't want that But it's fine because essentially It's going to resolve itself. You just got to give it a little bit. It's you got to give it some credit It's doing a lot of work here. It's catching up with everything and that should sign Assign an actual certificate In just a few minutes. So if a user is is concerned about that and comes to you about it Just wait a few minutes and then it'll be assigned Absolutely, and we're talking about auto ssl issuing a ssl certificate to load the site securely in the browser That runs every 30 minutes or so. So it doesn't run until after the account is created Because of dns needs to be loading on the server Before the certificate is is issued. So it'll show that it'll Show the self-sign certificate for a little bit, but it should be all set there. So Yeah, I can move into whmcs if we want Or is there anything else with wordpress? Yeah, I just You know was able to look in the chat briefly and saw that Lee mentioned that so many students get confused between sd panel wordpress versus their wordpress install so And I really like how the way that meredith just pointed out that Looking at it looking at the main wordpress as a portal is Definitely the way to go It definitely can be confusing because wordpress is something that a lot of people use their domain of one's own account to run But it's also, you know, just important to keep in mind that that's the that's the framework that we're Providing access through so It can be tricky to keep them in line, but it's important Yeah, so the way that amanda was explaining her the wordpress side was the state you portal to Domain of one's own and then the dashboard embed is the c-panel itself On that side. So so now that the account is created in wordpress That was throughout that whole setup process. Um, the wordpress site was communicating with whmcs And we went through their order form to sign up for the account and then once the submission happened whmcs then Processed to create the account on whm So I am going to talk through what whmcs looks like From the back end if you need to do any Troubleshooting or anything like that. I will preface. This is the most recent version of whmcs A lot of our product still is on older versions. So your view may not look like this But most of the info is about the same. So we'll look at like products and services And contact details and all of that could stuff in order creation So just preface saying that this is an updated version. So some of the features may be a little different or look a little different to you And it's important for your support team on on the ground to have their own whmcs Administrator setup. So if you need to let us know and we can create a new one For each admin. That's really helpful to Work on client management on that side So I'm going to search for my user Here and that will bring up a list of users also to show some Inactive users you can toggle off um To to show if like someone was suspended Accidentally or if you're restoring a terminated user to the profile, they'll have a inactive status because the product is no longer active in whm But I have my meredith test. I'm also going to zoom in just a bit just in case things are a little bit smaller On there So I'm going to click into my product and this is this will give you an overview of What's going on within the product itself And the user that just created their account. So when we go through the sign up page Some details are important like the domain name So if you need to search on whm you can you can grab that There there's also the cPanel username and the cPanel password Listed this is used for ssh connections or sfTP connections You can change this a password at any time if you need to using like a password generator There and then you can use these module commands, which I'll get to in just a second to help create and Do some account actions there You can also note the registration date. That's also really helpful If you're working through Removing accounts or calling accounts on you can you can see when it was signed up When the account was registered and kind of give a guess on On if it needs to be removed or anything like that But we'll definitely go into depth into more detail on account Removal and long-term management in one of the sessions. So definitely keep track of that You'll also want to make sure that the billing cycle is set to free This won't process an invoice For your users in domain of one zone. We're not working with invoices at all So we want to make sure that that's set to free so the account doesn't Accidentally get unsuspended. It will be the default It's also helpful just to double check if needed if you're troubleshooting on on that side at all from there If your school has multiple servers Set up You want to make sure to know what server the account lives on if you need to access through whm whmcs holds that information. So if you Click the drop down, you'll see if there's multiple I'm realizing that's not in my screen But you should see a list of the number of servers you have so if you have more than one That would the accounts will be provisioned there Um Excuse me the status in the account itself should show active if the users are actively working on them on the account and embedded in cPanel If you're not seeing the cPanel embed properly in the wordpress WHMCS is definitely the way to go to check The status to see if it's active suspended or terminated for whatever reason On that side You can also unsuspend or remove the account through the module commands And we'll definitely go into that into more details within the long-term management session If you need to change the cPanel password like we did with the one password Options you can change the password which will effectively sync Whatever password is in this box Into WHM to make sure that the cPanel embeds properly within wordpress So if you get if you have someone Asking about a cPanel login screen when they sign in to their to the portal You want to check here to make sure that the cPanel password matches And just clicking change password will definitely make sure that that works Down here you can see a disk space Quick quick view of metrics. I think in the older versions it's up towards the top Underneath the name, but it'll give you a quick glance at like how much storage the account is using Bandwidth and all of that good stuff Particularly looking at disk space if you need to if you're trying to organize Accounts based on disk space and usage there Down towards Um The I was going to say down towards the bottom, but that is not This is this is the new one um view, but there's an option to Resend the welcome email So at the point of sign up users are sent an email with their username and password Which is this the cPanel username and password if they need to use it for ftp They can also change that on their own within the wordpress portal underneath the drop down at the top bar that Amanda was showing um, so if you need to there um admin notes are really helpful too if you need to make a note on like if there's a particular project that the person's working on or if this is a um campus-wide project like a club or anything like that That's always really handy to keep track of um, and finally if you want to go into cPanel directly from WHM CS you definitely can In the older versions of WHM CS Log into cPanel is going to be right here in the middle next to username and password In the newer ones, it's up at the top So if you click log into cPanel that's going to open up a session in a new tab I'm not going to do that because my my screen is um shared just this window So you can get a view of what um cPanel looks like from WHM Up here at the top you have some more summary Tab likes more action items you can do with the profile There the summary will give you a quick glance of every product that the user has set up So if they have multiple projects that they're working on you can get a view of those The information of the user itself you can also go into profile and adjust this if needed Also setting the client group, which is important And we'll go through that in long-term account management. So if you need to send the any user a group of users information about Graduation and what we do with your account and all that good stuff so you can set the client group there And that should be Really it looking at the log as well that can also tell you if something's wrong with the account So if you can see that the order was deleted um from previous years and um The you can you can see that I created the account today for testing and all of that good stuff from there um That should really be all within whmcs for the user side Yeah Yeah, I was just while we're here. I was just going to say also that the log in whmcs is really great just for keeping track of history because This is really the only tool that does track that history in this particular way. Um wordpress Doesn't do that wordpress pushes account management business to whmcs whm is more concerned with What's inside the accounts than what the history of a particular account is And I was actually going to ask you Real quick if you could go in and suspend the account that you've made Uh, I will use that for my demo and then we can also see that suspension in action in the log Absolutely. Okay. So I will go back to the product and service page on my profile and then click suspend here and then you can put a reason like uh graduating or if you're like Suspending the account for a potential security threat or something like that You can you can put the reason in and then click yes to process the suspension The status will change to suspended and then by default if you don't put anything in the box It just says overdue on payment You'll also see a green success box Showing that it went through properly if there's any error It'll be a red box and then you can read more about it in the log as needed Yeah, so my account is suspended. I can no longer load the page if I go to the browser. I will see a account suspended message at the top on that side and Yeah Yeah, you wouldn't be able to log into the cPanel from there Or anything like that. Yeah, and this is uh useful. I think In part it doesn't happen super often, but if you have a user who's breaching any terms of service terms of use that you might set out for software hardware provided by The institution you can go in and suspend the account which doesn't take away any of the work the account still exists It's just inaccessible and then you have the chance to sit down with the user and be like Buddy we got to work through this. What's going on here? Yeah, and I think it's also important to keep in mind that as pilot said this doesn't Get rid of the account. It just helps access So if you're thinking about deprovisioning and stuff like that, um You don't want to rely on suspending. This is kind of like a temporary holding pattern Yeah, because the account still exists on your server Yeah, and meredith and I will talk more about deprovisioning tomorrow In the long-term management section But the other thing is because I know we've I think I I think I'm gonna I'll bring this up if I remember but uh, we've had Admins who are like, all right. I got to go through and manually hit the suspend button on every account I want to get rid of don't do that. We have scripts. We will do it for you Yeah, well, yeah, definitely worth noting on that side and then we'll we'll go through what the process looks like Um, for sure. So, yeah, we've got all of that. Um, I'm thinking through quickly just what we might want to Just to show the suspension and how that gets recorded in the log and then yeah, of course that that sounds good Let me get that moved over It'll show module suspend successful at the top of the error log Um, if there are any errors, um, sometimes you might see, um Like a cPanel username is the same across accounts. Um, it would throw an error like the the username exists in the system Or like this one module terminate fails. Um, anything like that if if needed. Um So you want to make sure you keep the product entry within your within your whmcs if at all possible um to keep a record of The account if you delete the product reference Here, I think it's under, um more on the newer ones. Um, or at the very bottom You'll see like a delete a red delete button Um, you definitely want to keep that around if needed just in case someone comes back and is like well I actually need my account back and you can restore it And that sort of thing. So we want to make sure we keep that record of all accounts that are other active on Um, at one point on the server for sure So Cool anything else here you guys can think of or should we move into whm? No, I I think we've hit just about Everything I know you guys are going to dive a little deeper into whmcs Later on so I think we've hit All the highlights here Okay, so let's move into whm And a little wrap up on that side is that WordPress is the end user interface and then whmcs and whm are the admin side So we want to make sure that that distinction is there That end users should not see whmcs or whm and if if needed We can help with any of the The back end side of things if you have any questions there and if for whatever reason users are seeing it Let us know because there there might be something something wrong there That we can definitely take a look at Under that side. Yeah. Yeah All right So I believe it's my turn. I'll hop in and take over and Be an evil overlord perhaps probably not I'll try not to Go mad with power But so this is whm you may or may not be familiar with this interface This is the server. This is so if WordPress as meredith and amanda said that's where the users sign in access their cPanel account The whmcs is sort of that bridge that manages WordPress will say please create this account or I need to show this account Please get me the information whmcs will go. Oh, yes, of course, and it'll talk to the server and manage that system whm is where information about each individual account lives in terms of What's in it? What size it is what it features it has access to things like that We encourage admin teams to in general keep Access to whm pretty limited because whm is very powerful. There's a lot of things you can do in here and Doing that will affect You have the potential to affect every user on the server Pretty easily and so we generally recommend keeping The credentials for signing into whm on a pretty need to know basis restricted Just to make sure that that Is sort of secure and safe That said we do need you to keep us aware of the credentials because We Also manage the server and we will actually take care of a lot of this for you in theory You don't ever need to use the features in whm. You can just write to us and say hey, please take care of it And we'll be happy to do that But if you need to cycle passwords for whatever reason someone on the team has moved on Please communicate with us so that we can make sure that our ability to access the server is Still in place so that we can help do that work for you I have a quick list of things just to run through First we're going to get into Just list accounts because you know, it's right front and center. It's literally the first thing there And it is Probably the thing you're going to use most. I know I used it the most when I was an admin Also Amanda just put something in the chat that is a great point, which is that In terms of whm you have the option to manage suspension and termination here at the server level We really just don't recommend that for the reasons that we mentioned earlier. The log in whmcs will track information on when and how that happened Whm just isn't capable of that. So that functionality is available from whmcs, which also the admin team That has access to whmcs may be a little larger. So In general, we recommend handling account management through whmcs With that said, let's hop into list accounts. Um We actually don't have a blur feature for here. So I'm just going to type this very quick So In Just to go through quickly list accounts will list every single possible account That it lives on the server terminated accounts aren't listed here suspended accounts are So I didn't uh, I moved too fast to actually see how many accounts are on the server. I put it at probably like 500 and something um, maybe less uh, but The when you first checklist accounts that number will be shown here. Um, When you're on the main list not when you've searched for something that number Is what? Counts towards your license. So your license might be 500. It might be a thousand. It might be 1500 accounts Uh, so if you have 400 out of 500 accounts That number here is what's being tracked not how many people have signed into wordpress or Uh, have signed or are recorded in whm. That's Not number of c-panel accounts. Um, because some people may log in without ever setting up an account um So list accounts is super useful. It's a great place to get a quick overview of all of the information, uh So christine the number isn't being shown right now because I searched for one particular account And so it's just showing me that one account But if I were to be looking at the entire list the number would be shown right here um I'm going to stay searched for this one account because it's our sample account that meredith just created and for the sake of user privacy, amanda was using that blur feature in Wordpress earlier We don't have a blur feature available on whm. And so we're just going to use we're just going to look at meredith's account for this um So just for the overview you have the domain you have this little c-panel button The ip address the username contact email the day it was made Where it lives How much storage it's allowed to take up how much storage it's actually taking up Uh, what package it has available and we'll get back to packages later. I do have that on my list The theme so just what it'll be styled as what it'll look like Uh, and then some more information. Oh and for example when it was suspended um So I asked meredith to suspend this as part of my demonstration just to show you suspended accounts are highlighted in red Uh, there's also this information on the date. It was suspended. Um pretty recently and so, uh This c-panel button in theory would Log us into meredith's c-panel Um in the same way that that one button in whmcs will bring you in and that switch to button in wordpress will bring you in If I use it right now, I won't see anything because the account's been suspended I won't be able to access that I will note that logging in through this button means logging in with root permissions which means Uh, or logging in with general server level admin permissions Which means that you will have a lot more power than The individual user might logging in in the wordpress level Uh So this is very powerful. It also means that for troubleshooting It might be hard to get a sense of what is affecting an issue at the user level because they have Fewer powers than you and so you may not be affected by an issue that is affecting them um The other thing I just want to look at or two things real quick is the quota and disk usage um So the quota as I said is the maximum amount of storage that a user is allowed to use Disk usage is the amount that they're actually using um If a user starts getting close to their quota, they'll get some little alert emails that say hey, you're at 75. You're at 80 percent You may want to talk to your admin about getting a little bit more storage If they hit their quota or exceed it, they'll start experiencing issues when they try and use their account It is possible to change the quota on a one-off basis for a user To do that you would go in here And you would hit change quota and it'll take you to a particular page That's just loading for a second. Um And I would say hey, let's give meredith A thousand megabytes. So, you know roughly a gigabyte. Um I caution generally against changing things on a one-off basis because it keeps it It makes it sort of hard to track who's a lot at what um And it also means that particular users may go, okay, so I can have more storage whenever I want And they don't necessarily practice responsible File management, you know Compressing their images not uploading huge files to their, uh account Which isn't really fair to other users. Um who Making sure that everyone gets an equal allotment of Uh Space on the server. Um, so we're not going to give meredith any more space besides she's only using two megabytes. She doesn't need it I will also mention to you that if you do change on a one-off basis If for whatever reason we need to change the quotas back Across the account to fix like an error or anything like that The account will automatically go back to the package that package defaults So if you need to you should always try to change a package in a one-off basis But also with further conversation with the user to kind of see what they what they're working with and that sort of thing before Making those changes. Um, just to make sure that you're keeping track of account management side of things like that. Yeah It's a great opportunity to talk to users about the work that they're doing how they're managing things and Just sort of see where they're at. It's a learning experience. It's great. Um The other thing that I want to point out just real quick is this download all records to a csv file link This can be really useful. Just if you want to get a sense of everything at once All of this information it'll bring in the whole csv for Whatever you've searched. I I believe We do also have other csv reports that have other particular uses. We'll talk a little bit more about that in Meredith's and my long-term management tomorrow that said This can also be useful Just for account management tracking information purposes With that we're going to go to disk space, which is the second or show current disk usage, which is the second sort of basic Informative place where you can go to find things out It has one job, which is to tell you how much space is being used on your server That's it. That's all So right now we're using 47 gigabytes out of a maximum about about 150 gigabytes, which is About 30 it's about a third of what's available There's not really anything you can do here It's just an Information readout if you ever want to take a look at what overall usage is like on your server Similarly to if you hit an accounts maximum quota If your server hits storage capacity it can cause issues Um That said we have automatic alerts in place to say oh Hey, you guys are getting to 75 80 85 percent And we will reach out to you to talk about how to manage that whether it's adding more storage to the server Or cleaning up accounts or some combination thereof That's pretty much it for disk usage. We're going to hop to packages next feature manager and packages And then we'll hop to install a tron. Hopefully if there's some still time um So marith touched on packages in whmcs and I also just sort of mentioned packages Uh briefly when we were on the list accounts section Uh a the feature manager the package. I don't actually we'll hop back out to the packages section in general um The package Also harkens back to what amanda was talking about with the ability to Modify what c-panel features a user has access to so if you wanted to remove all of the email features You would go into edit a package. Um wordpress in the classroom. I believe is the default And then we'd go into edit So this changes, uh the size of a particular Uh disk space quota. Um, it's using Um 10 gigabytes so meritus is actually a little below average, but that's fine. Um These are the settings that every account will have Every account with this package will have by default and as we said you can customize on a one-off basis But this is a way of standardizing things If you want to have separate packages for example for students and for faculty faculty might get a little higher resources a little more storage, etc a couple more features available at the c-panel level then Uh multiple packages is a great way to do that without having to go in and change it one off for every individual faculty member. Um So this is currently using the default feature list, which is where we'll hop to next It also says that the c-panel theme is paper lantern. Uh, let's just go to The feature manager, um, and we'll look at that Next So we will manage the default feature list If we hit edit All right, we said we wanted to disable email for example. So we'll just search for email Uh, this is not all of the features that are available in the email block in c-panel But it is everything with email in the actual name. And so let's say, all right, you know what? Let's get rid of all of this. We're going to uncheck email accounts email deliverability disk usage What no let's get rid of all of it. Uh, you don't need any of this probably Uh, and then we'd hit save And I'm not going to do all of that. But what that means is if I hit save on that every package that uses the default feature list Will lose access to these features Uh wordpress in the classroom, which I believe is the default package for users on the server We'll lose that so the default package for server users. They'll all have access to that removed um And so this is just a great tool if you say You know what some of this stuff is just not something our users are really going to need It's just something that we are going to take It might be confusing. It might be overwhelming. Let's just uncheck it Uh streamline things a little bit give them What we think the essentials are On the contrary, you might say, you know what? Let's give them everything Don't worry about it Let's let them explore that it'll be a sandbox space and that's fine, too But this is the place where you would come in order to take care of that Let me just see I think that's everything I had for feature managers, which is great because it also means that I have time to talk about installatron um And taylor and amanda are going to talk a little bit about installatron in the future I believe you guys are talking about site templating Uh, correct me if i'm wrong. Yeah, that's it. Yeah um So site uh site templing site templating is something that you handle and installatron We're actually going to touch on some of the other features instead Installatron So if the feature manager and packages controls what general cPanel features a user has access to Installatron controls specifically the applications that a user has access to like wordpress omeka Scalar grab all of those are applications that a user can install Using the one-click installer um the Access control will start there is the place It's the access control is feature manager, but for installatron basically So if we look at this and we say, uh, the other thing is that it'll note Uh, which groups are available so you can say well for the default group will change access or for a different group will change access, uh, that In general We have schools say Applications that are available will be available to people no matter what package they have So people don't really use this feature, but it's available Uh, so let's say, you know what? Uh, we don't need what are these? Let's get rid of all of these What is booked even what's dot-on mail? Um, so we would uncheck we don't Want users to see any of these we don't want them to you know what media wiki school will keep media wiki um We would use this uncheck feature in order to Basically remove access. Um, we'll go down. Let's see Uh, let's get rid of a couple more. Um The other thing that we have is the star feature And star basically pins a particular Application to the top of its section. So this is the content management section Applications in this section. They are grouped by this Um, and so the star will pull that to the top of the list Uh, and highlight it in yellow. So people will go. Oh, I could start with that so for example, uh, Grab and known And let's see. I'll be very surprised Where's wordpress? Um, omek. Yeah, here we go. So omeka wordpress. These are all featured as well Um, they get pulled to the front of the list. So users will see them first Um, so I think we've unchecked uh, or you may also want to disable Uh, some schools in the same way that they want to get rid of email They want to get rid of e-commerce and business because the terms of use availability for University software and hardware just don't allow that sort of thing So you can just get rid of all of it If you want to get rid of a whole section, you can actually do that by clicking this little power button And it'll just Wipe out absolutely everything very very efficient. You don't have to click things one by one Uh, you scroll all the way down to the bottom And you hit save all I'm not going to do that Because in the same way that we're not changing the feature manager. This is just a demo But if you wanted to this is how Um Also similarly if you don't want to do this you can just give us a list and we'll take care of it for you Uh, you don't have to do this manually and you don't even have to do it yourself Um If you've ever worked in cPanel, um, you may remember the you may have seen the my applications and my backups tabs when you go into My apps which is a feature in cPanel Uh install atron is a lot like that um Except that it's server-wide. So what this is telling me is that there's 113 installations across the server and Uh 93 backups of those installations. So if we go in here, I'm just gonna I'm gonna go very quick. Um at risk of showing people's stuff off But this is a list of all wordpress. This is a list of all things. So this account. I think is suspended which is why it's showing that but We can search for wordpress And that'll get us a list of oh, that's not right but uh in theory this will Show you everything and you can use install atron features like uh back up or clone on anything This number has changed uh on anything on the server Yes, and taylor and I will go into more detail in the specific section In our session tomorrow. So yes, absolutely um So this is just a way to get a quick look at everything going on Uh, similarly if you just want to get a look at all of the backups available That's what the my backups tab is for And so for restoring or for downloading backups without going in at the account level you would go here Uh, I believe That's everything. Uh, oh one of the things Amanda said and I mentioned that Amanda and taylor will be looking at templating. Um, that's just something that you can also do in install atron that's Just a feature that's available to you and they will talk more about that tomorrow That covers everything on my list. Uh, have I missed anything or have I misrepresented anything even more important? Uh, Amanda Meredith No, that was a great walk through for WHM We've got about five more minutes. Um on the session So if anybody has any questions, let us know in chat and we can definitely take a look and go through Some more options there If not we can break For a little bit of a break Um on that side Um, and I see a couple people talking about access to WHM CS and WHM that they don't have access to that Um, she wrote us an email to um Ed tech at reclaim reclaim hosting.com and we can definitely get you set up with access to WHM CS And to WHM So then that way you guys can kind of take a look through and explore those different options if you have um If you need access, um, I always like to tell admins that you want to try your best to work in the wordpress If you can if you're troubleshooting any end user Questions, um, it's needed to see what they see Um up front using that switch to tool that amanda Showed in the wordpress portal walkthrough That way you just get a good view of what the students sees because we do see the back end more often than not with As administrators, so you'll want to try to replicate as best as possible what the end user sees first And that something that marita and I will talk about in our session that goes more in depth in WHM CS as well um, but That view that you get when you use that switch to and wordpress is going to be slightly different than The view you get when you're in WHM CS and you just log into cPanel Yeah That it's not going to have the same it's not going to be influenced by the same things that the wordpress Portal view is going to be influenced by so it's always best to get as close to the user's experience as possible Yeah, all right last chance I would say for Questions otherwise we will just sort of Wrap this up and then our next session is happening at 1 p.m. So or 1 p.m. Eastern Whatever that translates to in your time So we will see you again then and I Believe that's taylor and I talking about the wordpress portal.  Um Anything else anything we're forgetting I don't think so All right This has been awesome. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely time is flying quick. All right. We'll see you all after a short little break Um at one o'clock See you later. Bye


Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Colin Lauver and I'm Liz Wade. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. This programme is about a very famous artist, but it is also about his mental illness. It mentions suicide. If you are thinking about suicide, please call a crisis centre in your area. You have probably seen this painting before. It is a painting of a night sky. Stars shine over a small village. The moon glows yellow. But this is no ordinary painting. Swirls of white and blue fill the sky. Each star is as big as a sun. It is clearly a real sky, but the way it is painted makes it a mystery. There is some kind of magic in that sky, but you do not know how it got there or why. This painting is called The Starry Night and it is by the artist Vincent Van Gogh. He lived during the 1800s in the Netherlands. Some people say that Van Gogh was a genius. He influenced many artists who came after him. But Van Gogh was also unwell.  He died without much money at a very young age. Few people knew about Van Gogh when he was alive, but today he is one of the most well-known artists in the world. Today's spotlight is on the life and illness of Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh was born in 1853 in the Netherlands. His family was wealthy. Many of them were art dealers. Some were Christian preachers. When he was young, Van Gogh did not impress many people. He had mood swings. Sometimes he was very happy and sometimes he was very sad. These emotions were very strong. They often annoyed family and friends. He was not able to control these emotions and the people who loved him did not know what to do.  For a time he was an art dealer, but he was restless and quit after a year. Then he wanted to become a preacher, but the church did not accept him. He often lived without much money and he sometimes lived on money that his parents gave him. Van Gogh did very badly when it came to practical things, but he soon discovered that he was very good at making art. He began to draw and paint constantly. He believed painting was his calling. He believed he was born to paint. Van Gogh had a brother named Theo. Theo was an art dealer in Paris, France. He believed his brother was a great artist, so he funded Van Gogh's art. Later Theo invited Vincent to live with him in Paris. Living in Paris was very important to Van Gogh. That was where many other interesting artists lived. There he was able to talk to and learn from them. It helped him become a better artist. There he created his own style. But Paris was also where Van Gogh's mental illness really began. He had always been very emotional. Often he was very depressed. He abused alcohol. He especially drank an alcohol called absinthe. But in Paris things began to get worse. Sometimes he would become terrified for no reason. At other times he would lose consciousness. He would forget where he was. After a few years Van Gogh tried to leave Paris. He found a house in a town called Arles. He hoped leaving Paris would help him get better. Instead it made things worse. Paul Gugain was a famous artist. He lived with Van Gogh in Arles. Van Gogh admired Gugain. He wanted to work with Gugain. But Gugain began to dislike Van Gogh. They fought often. Van Gogh told his brother Theo, Our argument is at times full of energy like with electricity. At times we end up with tired and empty heads. It is like an electric battery after discharge. Soon Gugain told Van Gogh that he was leaving. This changed something in Van Gogh. Gugain was very important to Van Gogh's plans. He did not know how to deal with the change. Later that day he approached Gugain with a razor blade. Van Gogh did not hurt him but Gugain felt threatened. He left soon after. That night Van Gogh began to hear voices even though he was alone. They tortured him. To make them quiet he picked up the same razor blade.  Then he went to a brothel. He gave his ear to a prostitute. Then he disappeared.  There doctors tried to treat him. They believed that he had epilepsy. Epilepsy is a disease that causes fits. During these fits people lose control of their bodies. But it can also give people hallucinations where they see and hear things that are not there. Soon Van Gogh began to recover. He stopped drinking alcohol and he started taking medication. He left the mental institution and he began to paint again. During this time Van Gogh made some of his most well-known paintings like the painting described at the beginning of the program. He painted similar things to other artists like flowers and fields but the way he painted was very different. He did not just paint these things he painted what he felt about them and he used colours in ways no one had seen before. People began to recognise his works.  He had several mental breakdowns. He went back to the institution several times. He hallucinated and feared being poisoned and he was often very depressed. He did not feel like a success. He wrote to his brother Theo. I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do. At such a moment I feel that I am lying at the bottom of a deep dark well. I feel completely helpless. Van Gogh's mental illness was very painful for him. One day it became too much. He went out into a field with a gun. He shot himself in the chest. He did not die. Later that day he went to his friend's home. He was bleeding from the chest. Van Gogh died two days later. He had committed suicide. He was only 37. After Van Gogh died his paintings quickly became famous. Museums began to display them. Art collectors bought them for a lot of money. Newspaper editors called him a genius. He influenced other famous painters like Henri Matisse. Today Van Gogh is one of the most well-known painters in the world. But for all this we will never really know what illness Vincent Van Gogh had. Some scholars agree that he had epilepsy. Others believed he had bipolar disorder. People with this disease have extreme periods of depression. But they also have moments of high activity or mania. A manic person often feels afraid of imaginary things. He may hear people speaking that are not there. Both of these diseases seem to describe Van Gogh. But there are many other theories. Many people even think he was such a good painter because of his mental illness. They believe his strange colors were because of madness. Or they believe his swinging emotions pushed him to paint. This may be true. But these things also pushed him to his death. He felt so strongly and loved what he did. He fought through many years of difficulty and changed the world of art. But Van Gogh did not see this. He died thinking he had failed. Before he died he told his brother, If I could have worked without this terrible disease, what things I might have done. Mental illness can be very serious. If you or anyone you know feels suicidal, please find help. There are many options for help. You can call a suicide hotline in your country or talk to a friend and ask them for help. More than anything, you should know that you are not alone. You should know that you can get better. Have you ever seen a painting by Vincent Van Gogh? What was your experience like? You can leave a comment on our website or email us at contact at spotlightenglish.com. You can also find us on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The writer of this program was Dan Christman. The producer was Michio Ozaki. The voices you heard were from the United Kingdom and the United States. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. You can listen to this program and read along with the script on our website at www.spotlightenglish.com. This program is called The Hidden Life of Vincent Van Gogh. Visit our website to download our free official app for Android and Apple devices. We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye.


Music has been an important part of human society since the beginning of time. Ancient artworks from all cultures show music of one form or another being played as an integral part of celebrations and other rituals. Neuroscientific studies are now showing that humans are hardwired to respond to music. Music stimulates more parts of the brain than any other human function. And yet, so often we forget about the potential power of music to help us in our daily lives. Here are three ways that music can transform your life. The first way is to use music to change your emotional state. We all know that music has a huge impact on mood. When you watch a movie, the music is used to make you feel scared in a scary movie, sad in a sad story or hopeful in a play. Everyone knows that if we want people to have a good time at a party, we need to choose the right kind of music. So, you too can use music to get yourself in the mood you want. And it's available to you every day. You need a confidence boost before that important presentation or meeting? Put on your confidence booster music. Researchers at McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital have shown that listening to music actually increases the amount of dopamine produced in the brain. You want to get into a state of relaxation and unwinding? Put on some relaxed tunes. You want to cheer yourself up? Play some of your favorite happy songs and sing along to get yourself into a better mood. The second way in which music can transform your life is to manage pain. In 2015, a study of more than 7,000 people who had had surgery found that people who listened to music after their surgery felt less pain and anxiety and were less likely to take pain medicine. This is thought to be because the experience of pain is a very complex and partially subjective experience. Music modulates the brain's limbic system, triggering numerous neurochemical effects, and therefore alters the experience of pain. It can also reduce stress hormone production, making you less stressed and optimistic. The third way in which music can transform your life is in the area of memory and cognition in dementia and Alzheimer's. There is growing evidence that music interventions may help people with different types of dementia not only feel better and act better but also think better. A 2017 study by Innis et al. showed that 60 participants with subjective cognitive decline, who listened to music for 12 minutes a day for three months, had significant improvements in their cognitive performance in areas like attention, decision making, processing speed, and memory. It's clear that music can change our lives in many different ways. It can change how we feel and make us feel better. It can also ease pain and help people with Alzheimer's and dementia remember things and think more clearly. So the next time you're feeling down or in need of a pick me up, crank up the tunes and let the music work its magic. And if you have chronic pain or are losing your memory, you might want to add music therapy to your treatment plan. With music as your ally, the possibilities for transformation are truly endless. Hi, I'm Emmy Golding, Director of Psychology for the Workplace Mental Health Institute. We hope you liked the video. If you did, make sure to give it a thumbs up. We have more and more videos being released each week. So when you subscribe, you'll get a notification letting you know when a new one's just been published. So make sure to hit that subscribe button and don't miss out on this vital information for yourself, your colleagues and your loved ones.


Where am I filming this? This is in Dubai. Now let me show you this area where I am living for the next week. This is where we are staying on the palm in Shoreline 7. It is an apartment two bedroom that we rented and we have that view.  I feel very spoiled for having this environment to live in and work in for a short time. The ocean is hot. It feels like a sauna. You have to go underwater to get a little coolness. That's why I actually prefer swimming in the pool which is cooled. It's quite opposite from what I'm used to. Normally oceans are cold but not here in Dubai. We are filming for the freedom experience where we want to invite some of you to join us here in Dubai to live and work for six plus months. Click that I to learn all about the freedom experience and that is a playlist of all the videos that I will be creating while I'm here to document this whole environment, this lifestyle, the costs, and places that you could live in, places that you could work in. We just finished incorporating our first company. It's called George Technology FZCO. So this George Technology company is in the Dubai Silicon Oasis in the DTECH office. I will show you more about that in the future. But this is just like a regular company, limited liability, and FZCO stands for Free Zone Company. Free Zone Companies are these zero tax companies that I mentioned before. All the revenue and income we collect through George Technology, which I will be driving all of my YouTube revenue through, is tax-free as long as I live here in Dubai more than six months of the year. Now, technically you don't have to live in Dubai for six months. You just have to live outside of your home country for more than six months. I'm a Canadian citizen. Canada does not tax me on a worldwide income if I live outside of the country for more than half a year. So it's completely legal, well documented. And I will show you more of the official legal documents that talk about this in future episodes and the websites that you can read if you're not convinced that this is 100% legit and above-board tax reduction strategy. Here is where we will stay for the next eight days of two bedroom apartment on the palm. Let me show you around. And here is the main living room. And let's walk and see the rest of the place. And the kitchen, which is the main differentiator of a hotel room, which doesn't usually have a kitchen. Very nice kitchen with a nice fridge, microwave oven and a clothes washing and drying machine of two in one. Pretty cool stuff. This is an amazing apartment. I didn't even know this was available until Mirko found it on Agoda and we're quite happy to be here for the next eight days. Pro tip, go to residence search, not hotel search on agoda.com to find places like this. Maid's room, if we had a maid, which we don't. Small bathroom, first bedroom with a king size bed and its own bathroom. And then the second bedroom is on the other side, right here, an amazing view of the ocean and the surrounding buildings. And we have our first guest, Evie. Second guest, Kira, third guest, Evie. And the last washroom is right here with a walk-in closet. Now also today, I got this, which is my D-Tech sign-in card for the company we incorporated, George Technology. This allows me to access my office, which is in the Dubai Silicon Oasis that I can now start working and making money through George Tech here in Dubai, pretty cool. Here we are in a studio office that has been vacated by the previous tenant and it is a soundproof room. There's the control room and then this is just the acoustic foam and soundproofing. And if we go back a little further, we can see the control room here and then the rest of the office space is here. 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