Platform Roles
User - Membership Roles
There are 3 roles that can be applied to a user's membership in a specific organization.
| Role | Capabilities |
|---|---|
| Owner | Can access the organization administration portal to create users, courses, sessions, emails, etc. Crucially, owners can promote other student or administrator users to owner. |
| Administrator | Can access the organization administration portal to create users, courses, sessions, emails, etc. |
| Student | Can access the course catalog and other public/unlisted pages and any content they’re enrolled in. |
User - Enrollment Roles
There are currently 6 roles that can be applied to a user's enrollment in a specific session of a course.
| Role | Capabilities |
|---|---|
| Guest | Can read course materials and follow along in discussions and events, but cannot participate |
| Student | Can read course materials, participate in discussions and events, but cannot create course materials |
| Course Facilitator | Can do everything a student can do, but can also create course content, discussions, events, etc. |
| Course Administrator | Can execute all functions in a course, but doesn’t have any meaningful distinction from a course facilitator at this point. |
| Guest Expert (NOT NORMALLY USED) | This role is now defunct and likely does not work. We will depreciate and remove this role soon. |
| Course Content Editor (NOT NORMALLY USED) | This role is now defunct and likely does not work. We will depreciate and remove this role soon. |