Signing in, and what "admin access" actually means​

Run /legion, /tempus, or /munus in Slack same as everyone else, and you get back a one-tap link — no password, no approval step. Tap it and you're in immediately. But that link is deliberately weak: it only proves Slack already knows who you are, so it signs you in with no groups at all — none of your admin tools show up yet, even ones you actually hold.

You'll see a small banner on whatever page you land on:

You opened this from a Slack quick link, so you're in limited mode — admin tools are hidden. Switch to full access

Click that, and now you get the real thing — a Slack Approve/Deny push:

Approve it, and your session is upgraded in place — no sign-out, no re-navigating — to a full session carrying your actual groups: tempus-admin, tempus-manager, munus-admin, munus-manager, and so on. Each app checks those groups to decide what to show you. A mentor holding admin groups on all three sees a home page like this:

If you're missing an admin tile you think you should have, that's a Legion group issue — ask an existing legion-admin to add you under Admin → User Groups, not something to troubleshoot in the individual app. The -manager groups (vs. -admin) exist for a reason: a tempus-manager gets the dashboard and report view only, and a munus-manager can manage opportunities/shifts but not the rest of admin — useful for someone who needs day-to-day access without full admin.

A bookmarked *.marswars.org link skips all of this. Go straight to tempus.marswars.org, munus.marswars.org, legion.marswars.org — any of them — without a live session, and you land on Legion's real sign-in form (type your username) instead of a magic link. That path was never weakened, so it gets you the real Approve/Deny push and a full-groups session immediately — no limited mode, no step-up. If you'd rather not deal with any of the Slack-link nuance above, just bookmark the app you use most and sign in that way.

Tempus — attendance​

The kiosk isn't student-only — scan your own badge in and out like anyone else to record your own shop hours, no admin access needed for that part. Mentors get their own board (the kiosk swaps to it automatically on a mentor badge scan) and their own leaderboard, separate from the student one; /qr and /hours both work for you too if you ever need a replacement badge or want to check your own total.

Your admin dashboard is the at-a-glance view walking into the shop: who's signed in right now, hours by team, and the season leaderboard, all live:

A sign-in earns full "Contributor" hours by default. When that needs correcting — someone was mostly distracted, or a session needs backfilling — run /edit <name> in Slack. It opens a modal right there with their last five sessions and the three contribution levels — pick both and save:

The student finds out immediately — Tempus DMs them the moment you save:

The same edit is available from Admin → Sessions if you'd rather work from a browser, or are cleaning up several sessions at once:

Other commands worth having memorized:

• /shop — who's currently signed in, without opening a browser.
• /gtfo — mass-signs-out every student still signed in (end-of-night cleanup), counted as Contributor hours up to that moment. Mentor-only; students get an error if they try it.

/qr also works for you if you ever need a replacement badge yourself.

Munus — volunteer hours​

The reviewing mentor for a submission (set per-shift, or a default for the whole opportunity) gets a DM the moment a student logs hours, with the claimed hours and their report right there:

Approve, Edit hours (if the number needs correcting before you approve it), or Reject — all from the DM, no site visit needed. The same queue lives on the admin dashboard if you'd rather work from a browser, or are catching up on more than one:

Only approved hours count toward a student's season total — a submission left sitting in Pending doesn't help them yet, though it does show as "projected" on the report page.

Posting a new opportunity is a munus-manager-or-above task, under Admin → Opportunities:

Add at least one shift (or mark it continuous) and Munus announces it to the team's volunteer channel automatically — you don't need to post about it separately in Slack.

Legion — the roster underneath everything​

You'll spend the least time here, but it's worth knowing what lives in Legion since it's the one place all of this actually gets configured:

• Adding/editing members — students and mentors are managed in Legion, not in Tempus or Munus directly (both just mirror the roster read-only, synced hourly or on demand via each app's own "Sync now" button).
• Granting admin access — a member's tempus-admin/munus-admin/etc. group membership is set entirely under Admin → User Groups, on the group's own page — never from the member edit form itself.
• Slack IDs — a student or mentor needs their Slack user ID set in Legion to receive any DMs (reminders, approval pushes, hour-submission notices). If someone says they're "not getting anything," check this first.

Quick reference​

Something broken, or a group that isn't behaving the way this post says it should? That's a software subteam question — find us in Slack.

Signing in — one tap, no password​

Every one of these apps signs you in through Legion, and Legion never asks for a password. Run /legion, /tempus, or /munus in Slack, and Mercury — the one shared Slack app behind every MARS/WARS tool — replies right there with a one-tap link, visible only to you: something like 🏠 Open Legion or 🕒 Open Tempus. Tap it and you're in — no approval step, nothing to wait for. /hours and /vhours work the same way, they just show your stats first, with the same kind of link at the end.

You might land on a page with a small "limited mode" banner the first time — that's normal and not something you need to do anything about. It's mentor-relevant (see the mentor's guide if that's ever you); as a student it doesn't affect anything you can do.

Tempus — shop attendance​

Tempus tracks your hours in the shop. There's no app to open for the everyday part:

• Walk in, scan your badge at the kiosk — you're signed in.
• Walk out, scan it again — you're signed out, counted as full "Contributor" hours by default.
• /hours in Slack any time for a private summary of your week and season so far:

That reply ends with a 📊 Open my dashboard link straight to your personal page — your recent sessions, total hours, and whether you're on pace for the week:

A couple of other commands worth knowing:

• /qr — lost your badge? This DMs you a fresh QR code on the spot, no mentor needed.
• /shop — see who else is currently signed in.

If a mentor needs to correct a session (say, you were marked Contributor but were mostly goofing off — or the reverse), that happens on their end via /edit; there's nothing for you to do there.

Munus — volunteer hours​

Munus is where volunteer opportunities get posted, and where you sign up and log your hours toward your season requirement. The whole loop below — signing up, getting reminded, and logging your hours — happens without leaving Slack.

1. An opportunity gets posted to the team's volunteer channel:

2. Tap "View & sign up" and a form opens right there — pick your shift and submit, no page load:

3. The day before your shift, a reminder shows up with the time, location, and attire, so it's not a surprise:

4. When the shift ends, log your hours in one tap — pre-filled with the scheduled length, or adjust it if you ran long or short:

5. A mentor reviews it, and once they approve, you'll hear back:

Only approved hours count toward your season total — if a submission is sitting as "Pending" for a bit, that's normal, it just means nobody's reviewed it yet.

If you'd rather do any of this from a browser, /vhours replies with your season progress and a one-tap link into the same dashboard:

Legion — your home base​

You'll rarely need to think about Legion directly, but /legion is a one-tap link to its home page, which lists every app you have access to plus every slash command available to you:

(The /edit and /gtfo commands are listed there too, but they're mentor-only — running them as a student just gets you an error.)

Quick reference​

Stuck on a sign-in, or something looks wrong? Drop a note in the software subteam's Slack channel — that's us.