What the platform does

The platform is one website that does five quite different jobs. Most people only ever see one or two of them. This page is the map.

1. The public site

Everything anyone can see without signing in.

• The homepage shows either the current conference or, between conferences, the society itself. Which one you get is controlled by a single setting called the operating mode, described in operating modes.
• The portfolio matrix at /availability lists every committee and every portfolio in it, with its current state. See reading the matrix.
• The Dispatch at /blog is the society's publication.
• The team page at /team is the secretariat roster.
• Quiz join at /quiz/join is where an audience enters a room code.
• Registration at /register is the five-step delegate form.

Any of these six sections can be switched off individually. When a section is off it disappears from the homepage, the header and the footer at the same time, so there are never links pointing at a hidden page.

2. The delegate area

Once you have registered you get a private link, /status/<your token>, that shows your application state, your allotment when it arrives, your payment, and eventually your check-in QR code. You do not need an account for that link to work.

If you also create an account, /dashboard shows the same information without needing the link. See your dashboard.

3. The admin console

/admin is where the conference is actually run: settings, committees, the matrix, fees, registrations, allotments, payments, the check-in desk, imports, the Dispatch review queue, quizzes, the team roster, user accounts and the activity log.

Two roles can enter it. Maintainers do everyday operations; admins can additionally do the things that move money or destroy data. The full split is in roles and permissions.

4. The recruitment console

/recruitment is a separate area for the society's own hiring: group discussions, interviews, scoring and selection. It has its own three-tier role system that is deliberately not the same as the admin roles, so a Junior Council member can run a group discussion without ever being able to open the admin console.

See the recruitment overview.

5. The live quiz

A presenter builds slides in /admin/quiz, then puts a six-digit room code on a projector. The audience joins from their phones at /quiz/join, with no account and no app. It runs in two modes: anonymous polling, or a scored quiz with a leaderboard.

How the pieces connect

Next: the glossary, or jump straight to your section from the introduction.