Nine workspaces. One login. No re-entry.
Every workspace below is a complete system. What Akonnect adds is a shared identity and a shared record, so work handed from a supervisor to a bursar to an editor never has to be typed twice.
Akonnect Publications
Submission through to issue production, with double-blind review that holds because reviewer identity is governed by the same role model as the rest of the platform.
- Manuscript pipeline from desk check to acceptance, with every decision timestamped and attributable.
- Reviewer invitations reuse the institutional login, so external reviewers get one credential and no shared inbox.
- Author records resolve against the research registry, so a publication counts towards the project that funded it.
Akonnect Research
Where a project lives from proposal to closure: ethics clearance, collaborators, datasets, scholarly service subscriptions and the spend attached to each.
- Ethics workflow routes to the right committee members and shows the applicant exactly which approval is outstanding.
- Entitlement passthrough to subscribed databases and tools, granted by role rather than by IP range.
- Grant utilisation reads live from finance, so a principal investigator sees the real balance rather than last month's.
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Akonnect Learning
Courses, training programmes and learning resources, with the enrolment record and the fee record being the same record. Holds clear the moment they are paid.
- Cohort view for teachers: material, assessment, attendance and progress in one pane.
- Own-record view for students: courses, results, dues and library entitlements, and nobody else's.
- Supervision links tie a scholar's coursework to the research project they sit on.
Akonnect FMS
Fees, cashiering, grant utilisation and reconciliation, reported as transactions land rather than at month end. Every line traces back to the person and the project it belongs to.
- Real-time posting so a cleared payment releases the academic hold without an overnight batch.
- Segregated visibility so a department head sees their cost centre and not the payroll beside it.
- Audit-ready exports that reconcile to the ledger, generated by the finance team without a data request.
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Akonnect Forms
Admissions, enrolment, ethics and grant applications. Routing follows the role model, so a submission arrives at the person empowered to decide it.
Akonnect Events
Conferences, seminars and workshops: registration, abstracts, attendance and the invoice, without a separate ticketing vendor.
Akonnect Members
Society and association membership: tiers, renewals, benefits and a fellows directory that stays current because it reads from the same identity.
Akonnect Support
Tickets raised inside a workspace carry that workspace's context. No screenshots, no “which system were you in”.
What each role sees, before you configure anything
These are the shipped defaults. Every cell is editable per institution, and every change is written to the audit trail with the administrator who made it.
| Capability | Student or scholar | Educator | Researcher | Administrator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identity and access | ||||
| Single sign-on to all connected platforms | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Change another person’s role | No | No | No | Yes, within scope |
| Read the cross-platform audit trail | Own sign-ins | Own sign-ins | Own sign-ins | Full |
| Teaching and learning | ||||
| Course material and assessments | Enrolled courses | Own cohorts | Supervised students | Full |
| Attendance and progress records | Own records | Own cohorts | Supervised students | Full |
| Research and publications | ||||
| Project registry and ethics status | Projects joined | Not by default | Own and collaborating | Full |
| Subscribed databases and scholarly services | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Manuscript review queue | No | Reviewer role only | Reviewer role only | Editorial scope |
| Finance and operations | ||||
| Fees, dues and payment history | Own records | Own records | Own and project spend | Cost centre or full |
| Grant utilisation reporting | No | No | Own projects | Full |
| Create and route institutional forms | Submit only | Cohort forms | Project forms | Full |
Need a role that is not listed — external examiner, visiting fellow, consortium partner? Tell us what it should see and we will model it with you.
See it against your own systems
We will run a walkthrough using your platform list and your role names, so you are judging Akonnect on your institution rather than on a demo tenant.