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Customize roles and permissions to suit your needs

How do roles and permissions relate?

Roles in Buzz represent a predetermined set of permissions. You are required to assign users a role when enrolling them in a course, giving them that role's permissions within the scope of that enrollment. All roles are automatically inherited by subdomains.

There are four standard roles in Buzz. The permissions for these roles are defined at the domain root and cannot be edited. If you want to give a user a set of permissions that is different from those given to the predefined roles, you can:

  • Grant individual users specific permissions.
  • Create custom roles with custom permission sets (see Additional articles below).

Buzz's four predefined roles are:

  • Administrator: This is a domain role that gives a user all available permissions within all levels (Domains, Users, Courses, Enrollments, and Objectives).
  • Owner: This is a course role that gives a user complete control over the course. Course-level permissions include: Read, Owner, Read Full, Edit, Delete, View Gradebook, Setup Gradebook, Grade Assessments, Grade Assignments, Grade Discussions, and Submit Final Grades.
  • Teacher: This is a course role with the same permissions as the Owner, except they cannot delete the course or enroll users. Course-level permissions include: Read, Read Full, Edit, View Gradebook, Setup Gradebook, Grade Assessments, Grade Assignments, Grade Discussions, and Submit Final Grades.
  • Student: This is a course role with Read and Participate permissions, basically, allowing the user to take the course.

Granting domain and enrollment permissions

You can assign roles and permissions in various places within Buzz, and where you grant them impacts how they're assigned:

  • Domain-wide permissions: When you grant them from the Permissions screen in the Domain tool, they are attached to the user and apply throughout the domain, regardless of the user's specific enrollments.
  • Enrollment-specific permissions: When you grant them from the Users > Enrollments or Courses > Enrollments screens, they apply only to that enrollment in the specified course.

Buzz permissions

The available permissions in Buzz fall under five different categories. These categories represent the component for which the permission grants privilege. They are: Domains, Users, Courses, Enrollments, and Objectives. The following tables describe the available permissions within each category.

Creating custom roles requires granting a combination of these permissions; you can edit these permissions sets after creation, but be aware that doing so changes permissions for all users assigned that role.

Domain permissions

In order for a user to employ domain role permissions, they must be granted from the Permissions screen in the Domain tool.

Domain Permission Role Type Allows users to ...
Owner Domain Grant, revoke, modify domain permissions for a user.
Create Domain Create domains and subdomains.
Read Domain Access the Admin app (this is the only permission that grants this access). Access (read) domain and subdomain information including subscriptions, roles, and settings.
Edit Domain Make changes to domains and subdomains, including subscriptions, roles, and settings
Delete Domain Delete domains and subdomains (including the domain they exist in).
Post Announcements Domain Post announcements to the domain.
Report Domain Run reports using domain data.
Manage subscriptions Domain Manage domain subscriptions.

Users permissions

In order for a user to employ domain role permissions, they must be granted from the Permissions screen in the Domain tool.

Users Permission Role Type Allows users to ...
Owner Domain Assign rights and subscriptions to domain users.
Create Domain Create domain users, but cannot manage permissions.
Read Domain Access the domain user information.
Edit Domain Make changes to domain user information (first name, last name) and change password. Cannot edit permissions or username.
Delete Domain Delete domain users.
Proxy Domain Sign in and make changes as another domain user.
Report Domain Run reports using domain user data.

Courses permissions

In order for a user to employ domain role permissions, they must be granted from the Permissions screen in the Domain tool.

Courses Permission Role Type Allows users to ... Grants other permissions?
Read Course and Domain Access (read) specified courses in the domain. No
Participate Course Complete activities in specified courses; this permission is only available for student users. Yes: Read Course is granted for Course roles.
Owner Course and Domain Grant rights to specified courses. Yes: Read Course and Read Full Course are granted for Course roles.
Create Domain Create courses in the domain. Yes: Read Course and Read Full Course are granted for Course roles.
Read Full Course and Domain Access (read) all course content data in the domain, including assessment questions and hidden-from-student content, regardless of their other enrollment rights in the course. No
Edit Course and Domain Make changes to specified courses. Yes: Read Course and Read Full Course are granted for Course roles.
Delete Course and Domain Delete specified courses. Yes: Read Course and Read Full Course are granted for Course roles.
Report Course and Domain Run reports using specified course data. No
View Gradebook Course and Domain Access specified course Gradebooks. Yes: Read Course and Read Full Course are granted for Course roles.
Setup Gradebook Course and Domain Setup specified course Gradebooks and make changes to their settings (grading schemes, grade scales, item weight, etc.) in Activity Data and Course Data. Yes: Read Course and Read Full Course are granted for Course roles.
Grade Assessments Course and Domain Grade assessments in specified courses. Yes: Read Course, Read Full Course, and View Gradebook are granted for Course roles.
Grade Assignments Course and Domain Grade assignments in specified courses. Yes: Read Course, Read Full Course, and View Gradebook are granted for Course roles.
Grade Discussions Course and Domain Grade discussion activities in specified courses. Yes: Read Course, Read Full Course, and View Gradebook are granted for Course roles.
Submit Final Grades Course and Domain Submit final grades for specified courses and their grading periods. No

Enrollments permissions

In order for a user to employ domain role permissions, they must be granted from the Permissions screen in the Domain tool.

Enrollments Permission Role Type Allows users to ...
Owner Domain Grant and revoke specified enrollment rights.
Read Domain Access data, including grades, that is associated with the specified enrollments.

Objectives permissions

In order for a user to employ domain role permissions, they must be granted from the Permissions screen in the Domain tool.

Objectives Permission Role Type Allows users to ...
Read Domain Access objectives and objective maps from specified objective sets.
Edit Domain Make changes (add, update, or delete) to objectives and objective maps from specified objective sets.
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