Maestro organizes data and functionality into separate modules. The modules accessible to a user are seen in the tabs that run across the top of the Maestro interface. Clicking on a tab takes the user to that module.

Each module provides access to a particular entity (such as Teachers or Courses); a specific task (such as Reports or Communications); or an administrative function (such as Admissions or Administration).

The typical module landing page displays a group – the population of entities or objects to which that module is dedicated. These are organized into records arranged in a list. Using the grid features, the user can manipulate the list records, for example by sorting, searching or grouping.

(In the Home, Applications and Administration modules this arrangement is present, but not on the landing page).

The module provides tools for managing the group and communicating with its members. A user can, for example:

• Send an email blast to a selected group of students.
• Export the list's records to an Excel file.
• Open the template used to create a new record (new teacher, course, section, organization, and so on) that Maestro will add to the list.

Finally, each record in a list includes links to the Home Page for each entity named in that record.

Maestro currently has fourteen modules; each is fully described in a dedicated chapter of this User Guide. The modules available to a user depend on role and access level as configured by the institution. Typically, an instructor level user will not have access to all the modules and menus of an administrator, so each will have a different user interface in that respect.

Remember that not every module described in the User Guide is used in every program, nor is every module visible to every user type.