User Role Descriptions
In TAO Portal, users can have 2 types of roles:
- Account roles: global roles that allow access to some functionality across the whole application
- Group roles: roles that are scoped to a given group only
Account roles
TAO Portal support the following Account (global) roles:
- Global admin
- Content developer
- Group creator
These roles have rights across the TAO Portal without any restriction linked to the group they are enrolled in.
The table below summarises the right of each role:
| Global Admin [ADMIN] |
Content Developer [CONTENT_CREATOR] |
Group Creator [GROUP_CREATOR] |
|
| Account-wide settings | |||
| Access to settings | Yes | ||
| Access to authoring | Yes | Yes | |
| Create groups | Yes | Yes (when a Group Creator creates a group, they are automatically assigned as Group Manager (see next paragraph) of that group) |
|
| Create, Read, Update and Delete users | Yes | ||
| Group-level actions | |||
| Read, Update, and Delete groups | Yes | ||
| Add/Remove users in group | Yes | ||
| Create, Read, Update and Delete sessions | Yes | ||
| Monitor session | Yes | ||
| Grade session | Yes | ||
| View sessions list | Yes | ||
| Enter session | Yes | ||
| Take session | Yes | ||
| Review session | Yes | ||
| View session reports | Yes | ||
| View individual reports | Yes |
Group-related roles
In addition to the account roles, TAO Portal support the following Group-related roles:
- Group manager
- Scorer
- Test-taker
These roles can be assigned as part of the enrollment of a user to a specific group and provide the right to perform some actions in the scope of the given group.
| Group Manager
[GROUP_MANAGER] |
Scorer
[GRADER] |
Test-taker
[TEST_TAKER] |
|
| Group-level actions | |||
| Read, Update, and Delete groups | Yes | ||
| Add/Remove users in group | Yes | ||
| Create, Read, Update and Delete sessions | Yes | ||
| Monitor session | Yes | ||
| Grade session | Yes | Yes | |
| View sessions list | Yes | Yes | |
| Enter session | Yes | Yes | |
| Take session | Yes | Yes | |
| Review session | Yes | Yes
(if allowed by session config) |
|
| View session reports | Yes | ||
| View individual reports | Yes
(for the whole group) |
Yes
(only for themselves) |
