These features are the basis of itslearning, but not all schools use all features. Look through the features and consider what your users would always want to have available, and what is usually not part of their workflow. Some of the features shown here might not be available for all sites.

The 360° reports aggregate different reports around students' use of itslearning. These options control whether the reports are switched on by default in new courses, and whether students can see them.

There are big differences between schools in which reports are used and who they are available to. A report that is never used is just clutter in the platform and should be removed. Look at the different report types in the Reports and follow up folder under the Teachers article section.

These are features that are available, but not used in all schools. Most schools will use Learning objectives, but few schools use Portfolio assessment, for instance. Consider what your site needs.

Activate or deactivate site-wide functions.

• Attendance system – enables attendance registration and reporting across the site.
• Enable behaviour tracking – enables the Behaviour tool, allowing teachers and mentors to record behaviour remarks (see section 1.2).
• Enable workload for tasks – lets teachers set an estimated workload on tasks, so planned workload can be seen and balanced across courses.
• Anonymous activities – a dropdown controlling how anonymity works in activities, for example that student names remain hidden in the activity while results are still visible in course reports. Anonymity reduces unconscious bias during assessment.
• Enable resource booking – enables the tool for booking shared resources such as rooms and equipment.
• Enable homework – enables the homework functionality, letting teachers mark tasks as homework so students can find them collected in one place.
• Let teachers grant temporary access to students who have been removed from a course – useful when a student has been unenrolled (for example by synchronisation) but still needs short-term access to complete or review work.
• Set page to be displayed when users log out – the URL users are sent to after logging out.

The quarantine period is the amount of time deleted items must remain in the trash can before they can be deleted permanently. This acts as a safety window for restoring accidentally deleted content.

• Set quarantine period for site trash can (0–300 days)
• Set quarantine period for course trash can (0–300 days)

These settings control what user data is visible, to whom, and across which organisational boundaries. This section also enables or disables the Parent portal and defines the level of detail parents see in reports.

• Allowed to see hierarchies from – controls which parts of the organisational hierarchy users can browse, for example only hierarchies in the user's own organisation.
• Allowed to synchronise course with – controls which hierarchies a course can synchronise its participant list with.
• Show course group for each organisation group – only enable this setting if teachers need to be able to extend the members of an organisation group in a course.
• Organisations visible in mobile app login search – controls which organisations appear when users search for their site in the mobile app login.
• Show the date/time of logins on the Your students page – lets teachers and mentors see when their students last logged in.
• Do not show student names in the plagiarism report – anonymises students in plagiarism reports.
• Extra user information in lists – selects which custom field (from Customised information, section 2.3) is displayed alongside user names in lists, useful for distinguishing users with similar names.
• Allow search for usernames – controls whether users can be found by searching for their username. To enhance search result clarity, consider enabling the profile setting "Show detailed user information about other users".
• Parent portal: Enable / Disable – turns the Parent portal on or off for the whole site.
• Allow adult students to manage parent access – lets students of legal age control whether their parents have access. This also prevents students from changing their birth date in personal settings.
• Show detailed attendance report, Show recent submissions in the profile page, Show detailed assessment report, Show detailed behaviour report, Show detailed learning-objectives report – control the level of detail available in the Parent portal and profile pages.

These settings define the password policy for accounts that log in with an itslearning username and password. They do not affect users who log in through an external identity provider, where the password policy is managed externally.

• Set required password complexity
• Set minimum password length (for the selected complexity, the minimum allowed value is 7)
• Number of previous passwords that cannot be reused (1–24)
• Set maximum time password is valid, in days (0 = password never expires)
• Set how many days before the password expires a warning message is displayed
• Require that all users change their password after their next login

These settings protect accounts against repeated failed login attempts.

• Set number of login attempts allowed before locking a user out (2–10)
• Reset lockout counter time, in minutes (0 = never reset lockout automatically)

• Course archiving – allows courses to be archived automatically through the site's synchronisation with external systems, rather than archiving each course manually.

Controls what users can do with their own messages in the internal messaging system.

• Users can delete and edit their own messages. Teachers can also delete messages in course conversations.

Controls how external tools and course content can be used across the site.

• Include the LTI tool on the add resource page – lets teachers add LTI tools directly when adding resources to a course.
• Only allow LTI tools with an "Anonymous" privacy level – restricts LTI tools to those that do not receive identifying user data, for stricter privacy requirements.
• Enable access to the app library – gives teachers access to the library of apps that can be added to courses.
• Allow teachers to override the automatic scoring in the test tool – lets teachers manually adjust automatically calculated test scores.
• Enable illustrations suitable for K12 – enables an illustration set adapted to younger learners.
• Allow students to bulk-download course resources – lets students download multiple course resources at once instead of one at a time.
• Let students save course resources to their "Saved course materials" – lets students keep personal copies of course resources, so they retain access after a course ends. After enabling this setting, "Saved course materials" must also be enabled for the relevant student profiles.

Controls which assessment record capabilities are available to teachers in courses.

• Enable weighting for categories – allows teachers to give assessment categories different weights when calculating overall results.
• Enable assessment summary – makes the summary view available in the assessment record, giving an aggregated overview per student.
• Enable exempt – allows individual students to be exempted from an assessment, so it does not count towards their result.

Controls site-wide options for the Plans tool.

• Prevent topics and plans from being copied again – stops topics and plans that have already been copied from being copied a second time, avoiding duplicates.
• Enable table view for all course profiles – all teachers have access to table view by default; this setting extends read-only access to other course profiles. Table view is not fully accessible for the visually impaired or those relying solely on keyboard navigation.

Controls site-wide options for the Assignment tool.

• Send a submission receipt to students when answering a mandatory assignment – students receive a confirmation that their submission was registered, useful as documentation for mandatory work.
• Enable discussion in assignment – allows a discussion thread between teacher and student directly within an assignment.
• Enable teacher notes – lets teachers keep notes on assignments that are not visible to students.

Controls which plugins are available in the Rich-text editor across the platform.

• Enable accessibility plugin in the rich-text editor – helps content authors check and improve the accessibility of the content they create.
• Enable LaTeX plugin – allows mathematical notation and formulas to be written in the editor.

Controls which ePortfolio features are available to users on the site.

• Enable email field in About me – lets users display an email address on their ePortfolio About me page.
• Enable Blog – enables the blog functionality within ePortfolio.

These settings control whether 360° reports are available site-wide, by role and by report type. This is separate from the 360° reports options under Set default course settings, which control whether the reports are switched on by default in new courses once they are available site-wide.

• Enable 360° report for course teachers: Activity, Progress, Grades
• Enable 360° report for mentors: Activity, Progress, Grades
• Enable 360° report for students: Activity, Progress, Grades
• Allow course teacher to opt in to updates from 360° reports
• Include all course profiles on the Activity tab

The external course catalogue makes selected courses available to people outside the site, for example for open enrolment courses. These settings control whether it is enabled, how it is reached, and how external visitors can create accounts.

• Enable external course catalogue. After enabling this setting, also enable "Allow adding courses to the external course catalogue" for any profiles that need permission to add courses to it.
• Show a link to the external course catalogue on the login page. If the external course catalogue is not available on the login page, it can only be accessed via a direct link.
• A Copy link to the external course catalogue button provides the direct link.
• Show names of teachers and contact persons in the external course catalogue.

Account creation – controls how external visitors can create an account to enrol in courses:

• Allow the creation of a new account using an email address
• Allow the creation of an account using an itslearning account from another site
• Assign external accounts to a selected profile (for example, Student)
• Link to terms and conditions (a URL field)
• Number of days before inactive users are deleted (minimum value is 30 days)

The internal course catalogue lets existing users on the site browse and register for courses themselves, rather than being enrolled manually or by synchronisation.

• Enable internal course catalogue. After enabling this setting, also enable "Allow adding courses to the internal course catalogue" for any profiles that need permission to add courses to it.
• Show names of teachers in the internal course catalogue.

Available registration types – controls which enrolment methods course owners can choose from:

• Approval: students must apply to gain access to the course
• Registration key: a registration key is required to enrol in the course
• Open: students can freely register for the course

Controls which course templates are available when users create new courses, including whether templates from other sites can be used.

Template usage options (one of the following can be selected):

• Show templates from this site only
• Show templates from all sites
• Show templates from your site and the sites selected below

Through this temporary, secure, and logged access, itslearning can offer support and services on the site.

• Enable access for itslearning support, with an expiry date and time
• Enable access for itslearning services, with an expiry date and time

An Audit log button provides access to the log of itslearning access to the site.