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User Roles

A User Role is a custom group of User Permissions based on how a certain group of Users need to access the LearnCenter ControlPanel menus and options. You can associate Users to these roles based on their responsibilities within your organization or their need to access certain LearnCenter functionality. Roles enable you to quickly and efficiently assign User Permissions to Users. If a User’s responsibilities within your organization changes (for example, a system administrator becomes a training administrator), you can quickly reassign that User to the appropriate User Role in the LearnCenter. On the ControlPanel:

Click on the Users menu to expand it.
Click User Roles.

By default, all Active User roles are listed. The choices in the Status drop-down box are Active, Inactive, and Both. The role named User* is a standard LearnCenter role to which all Users are initially assigned.

Button	Description
	Click this to map Users to a role or delete them from a role.
	Click this to edit a role’s basic properties of name, description, status, and permissions.
	Click this to make an active User Role inactive. It only displays when viewing active roles.
	Click this to make an inactive User Role active. It only displays when viewing inactive roles.
	Click this to associate User Permissions with a role or delete User Permissions from a role.

Adding and populating User Roles are described in detail in the following sections, but these three steps are a synopsis of the process:

Add the custom role’s basic properties (name and description).
Associate certain permissions with the role.
Map Users to the role.