Digerati is an intranet management system which is free to NHS organisations and GP practices.  Digerati is developed and supported by NHS connecting for Health.

Digerati can be used to store documents that can be searched for by title, description or keyword.  Areas can be set up for all staff to upload and view documents and private areas for specific people to access.  Digerati also includes Message Boards and Directories.

Menu Bar

A menu bar across the top of the screen provides links to:

• Home Page
• What's New (automatically created)
• Search (the title and description of additions to the Intranet)
• Site Map (side-on view of the Intranet contents, automatically created)
• Index (A to Z of Intranet contents, automatically created)
• My Web (change personal settings such as frames, personal What's New)
• Login (to provide access to hidden folders/documents)

Navigation Bar

Navigation down the left of the screen can include a link to switch between frames and no frames, the date, the time and any other HTML entered. Below these entries, the top two "levels" of folders as created, can be listed to provide a vertical navigation tool. Second "level" folders from the hierarchy arrangement are shown indented below the top "level" folders.

User Permissions

In any given folder, depending on permissions, a user can upload documents and images, create sub-folders, set-up discussion boards, directories (of people), add text

or set-up a feedback form.

Web Access

All features described, and administration of the system, takes place through the web browser.

User Levels

There are four levels of users with Digerati:

Administrator

Can do anything, particularly:

• create users, groups (and place users into groups)
• change system wide parameters (see 'System Parameters')
• create folders in the "top" level and pass on "ownership"
• everything that is listed for folder owners
• add navigation links to the vertical navigation bar

Folder Owners

If a user is given permission to "own" a folder they can perform the following:

• create sub folders
• set who can see the folder (including guests)
• set who can see the contents of the folder (including guests)
• set who can upload documents into the folder (including guests)
• create discussion boards
• create directories of people
• create feedback forms
• everything that is listed for users

Users

A "user", if given permission to, can:

• view contents of folders
• upload documents
• upload images into the folder
• take part in discussion boards
• tailor "My Web" with particular settings
• insert hyperlinks to other web sites, or other location within Digerati
• place "items" within the folder (ie. paragraphs of text which appear)

Guests

If no login takes place, the users is referred to as a "Guest" who will only have the rights to navigate and view what has been set-up by the folder owners and the administrator.