When you click the Profiles option in the administration tab, you see a large table with available functionalities. They are explained in the table below.
The green check mark indicates that the functionality is enabled for the profile, while the red x indicates the functionality is disabled for the profile.
Questions to consider:
- What profiles will you have within your site? Default profiles include system administrator, administrator, staff, student, guest, and AICC.
- Looking at the following functionalities, which do you want to apply to each profile? For example, you might not want teachers to be able to make courses if you are creating template courses to distribute from the district level.
| Permissions | |
| Security level | Indicates the security level of the profile. Advanced profiles have the highest security level. For example: Community managers have 50 and community participants have 30. Note: The security level must be unique. |
| Manage participants and groups | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to add, edit, and delete participants in a community. |
| Use trash can | Indicates whether the trash can is available for users with this profile. |
| Manage events in community calendar | Indicates whether this profile is allowed to add, edit, and delete calendar events in the community calendar. |
| Manage general administration permissions (for example: bulletins or community settings) | Indicates whether this profile has access to general administrator rights. This implies administration of bulletin boards, community settings, access to reports, etc. |
| Include profile in student reports (progress report, personal report, etc.) | Indicates whether this profile is to be used when reports are created, whether they are to be shown in the status pages, etc. |
| Default profiles | |
| Use this profile for default membership | New community participants get this profile by default. |
| Use this profile for users creating a community | Users that add new communities get this profile by default. |
| Default permissions in root folder (used when new communities are created) | |
| Full control | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted full control permissions in the community folder when a community is created. Full control gives the user permission to manage the folder permissions, along with those permissions listed below. |
| Edit | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted edit permissions in the community folder when a community is created. Edit gives the user permission to edit the folder. |
| Write | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted write permissions in the community folder when a community is created. Write gives the user permission to add elements to the folder, copy elements to and from the folder, and change the element sequence within the folder. |
| Evaluate | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted evaluate permissions in the community folder when a community is created. Evaluate permissions are not used by the folder directly. Elements added to this folder will inherit this permission. |
| Participate | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted participate permissions in the community folder when a community is created. Participate permissions are not used by the folder directly. Elements added to this folder will inherit this permission. |
| Read | Select whether someone with this profile should be granted read permissions in the community folder when a community is created. Read gives the user permission to see the folder contents. |