Users

Users represent the people who will use the Learning Management System. There are six standard user types, indicated by the LMS Role that is assigned to the user account when you create it. You can edit these types or create your own as required.

• Student: Students only have access to their learning portal. They can view their forthcoming schedule of classroom courses and access online courses assigned to them. They can browse the course catalogues assigned to them and can run reports to see their own progress. The student role provides the lowest access level to the Learning Management System. All user types incorporate the student role.
  
• Manager: In addition to the facilities available to a student, a manager has access to the administration options of the Learning Management System. However, a manager can only view information for users that they manage—all other users do not appear. Additionally, a manager can administer any groups or courses to which they have been assigned as an administrator.
  
• Tutor: Tutors only have access to their learning portal. This role is assigned to users who will be course tutors but will not have administrative rights in the Learning Management System.
  
• Accreditor: In addition to the facilities available to a student, an accreditor has access to the accreditation module. Accreditors can review and award accreditations to users.
  
• Accreditation administrator: In addition to the facilities available to an accreditor, an accreditation administrator has the ability to edit and delete messages from the accreditation forum.
  
• Training administrator: In addition to the facilities available to a student, a training administrator has full administration access to all objects in the Learning Management System. Any reports that a training administrator creates will cover all users in the system.
  
• System administrator: System Administrators have complete access to all facilities of the Learning Management System. System administrators can configure the Learning Management System to meet the needs of the organisation, such as vocabulary, resource links, and the message of the day.

Since the training administrator and system administrator roles are so similar, from here on the term “administrator” will be used to describe functionality that is common to both roles.