Roles and permissions

Roles exist on three levels: the organisation, the group and the course. One person can hold several, for example be a teacher of the organisation, a group’s teacher and a course owner. Above them is the system administrator, who can do everything on the platform (system administrator’s guide).

Organisation roles

Role	What it allows	How it is given
Admin	Manages the organisation’s users, groups, courses and admins; opens any course of the organisation. Can do everything a teacher can.	In the organisation panel: Add admin.
Teacher	Creates courses and uses the problem archive in the organisation, without administering it.	Make teacher… in the user panel; automatically when someone becomes a group’s teacher, or when their admin role is removed.
Member	Belongs to the organisation: reads its wiki pages, and can be added to its groups and courses.	When the account is created in the organisation, or when a system administrator adds the user to it.

Students’ accounts are usually organisation members with no other role.

Group roles

Role	What it allows
Teacher (group admin)	Adds the group to courses they work in; in those courses sees the students who came through their groups (and subgroups), their submissions and progress, writes to them and can reset their passwords; can open and close topics for their groups. Doesn’t open Administration.
Member	Is enrolled as a student in the group’s courses through the group.

A group’s teacher also becomes a teacher of the organisation. The same person can’t be both a member and a teacher of a group.

Course roles

Ability	Owner	Teacher	Assistant	Student
Sees every student’s submissions and progress in the course	✓	✓	✓	Own only
Changes topics, problems and deadlines	✓	✓	–	–
Changes the course settings	✓	✓	–	–
Enrols students and adds groups	✓	✓	–	–
Gives individual tasks	✓	✓	✓	–
Posts announcements and replies to students	✓	✓	✓	–
Resets students’ passwords	✓	✓	–	–
Manages the course staff (owners, teachers, assistants)	✓	–	–	–
Archives the course	✓	–	–	–

• A course always keeps at least one owner.
• An organisation admin can do in their organisation’s courses what an owner can, even without working in the course.
• Students see only their own work. The one exception: while a course shows it, its students see their group’s reduced progress sheet (who solved which common problem, nothing more).

Who can reset whose password

Who resets	Whose
System administrator	Everyone’s except system administrators’.
Organisation admin	Their organisation’s members’, teachers included, but not organisation or system admins’.
Course owner or teacher	Their course’s students’.
Group teacher	Members of their groups and subgroups, and students enrolled through those groups.

Course owners, teachers and group teachers can’t reset the password of someone who holds a staff role themselves (course staff, group or organisation teacher or admin), so nobody can take over a colleague’s account. Nobody resets their own password this way: change it in Settings → Security.

Where to do it: in the user panel in Administration, or in a course’s People.