Your GradPoint experience is customized for your role, providing security and ensuring you have access to the right tools and content. The user experience is controlled by the domain and course permissions. These permissions are combined into a defined role. You can assign roles and permissions in various places within GradPoint:
- 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 course enrollments.
- When you grant them from the Enrollments screen of either the Users or Courses tool in the admin app, they apply only to that enrollment in the specified course.
Administrators can create a new role to customize user permissions to meet their implementation needs. All roles are automatically inherited by subdomains. The domain menu’s Roles tab lists the default roles for GradPoint by type.
Teacher-Authors have course edit capabilities. They can customize courses, assign specific due dates, create groups, and change passing thresholds. Teachers do not have course edit capabilities, but can work with student enrollment and all gradebook-related tasks. Registrars work with users so they have access to the admin app, but do not have all of the rights of an Administrator.
General Rules
The following general rules pertain to user roles:
- Staff must have a defined domain role within their user profile.
- Users cannot self-upgrade their own domain permissions.
- Administrators can upgrade a role without loss of any user data.
Summary of Permissions by Role - Domain level
Roles are created by defining permissions at the domain and course levels.
Below is a table that provides a summary of the domain permissions provided to the default user roles in GradPoint.
| Permission | Permission Description | Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administrator | Registrar | Teacher-Author | Teacher | ||
| Domain | |||||
| Owner | Grant, revoke, and modify domain permissions for a user. | X | |||
| Create | Not used (Pearson creates domains/subdomains) | ||||
| Read | Access the Admin app (this is the only permission that grants this access). Access (read) domain and subdomain information including subscriptions, roles, and settings. | X | X | ||
| Edit | Make changes to domains and subdomains, including roles and settings. | X | |||
| Delete | Not used (Pearson deletes domains/subdomains) | ||||
| Post Announcements | Post announcements to the domain. | X | |||
| Report | Run reports using domain data. | X | X | ||
| Users | |||||
| Owner | Assign rights and subscriptions to domain users. | X | X | ||
| Create | Create domain users, but cannot manage permissions. | X | X | X | X |
| Read | Access the domain user information. | X | X | X | X |
| Edit | Make changes to domain user information (first name, last name) and change password. Cannot edit permissions or username. | X | X | X | X |
| Delete | Delete domain users. | X | |||
| Proxy | Sign in and make changes as another domain user. | X | X | X | X |
| Report | Run reports using domain user data. | X | X | ||
| Course | |||||
| Read | Access (read) specified courses in the domain. | X | X | X | X |
| Participate | Complete activities in specified courses; this permission is only available for student users. | ||||
| Owner | Grant rights to specified courses. | X | X | X | X |
| Create | Create courses in the domain. | X | X | ||
| Read Full | 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. | X | X | X | X |
| Edit | Make changes to specified courses in the domain. | X | X | X | |
| Delete | Delete specified courses from the domain. | X | |||
| Report | Run reports using specified course data. | X | X | ||
| View Gradebook | Access specified course Gradebooks. | X | X | X | X |
| Setup Gradebook | Setup specified course Gradebooks and make changes to their settings (grading schemes, grade scales, item weight, etc.) in Activity Data and Course Data. | X | X | X | X |
| Grade Assessments | Grade assessments in specified courses. | X | X | X | X |
| Grade Assignments | Grade assignments in specified courses. | X | X | X | X |
| Grade Discussions | Grade discussion activities in specified courses. | X | X | X | X |
| Submit Final Grades | Submit final grades for specified courses and their grading periods. | X | X | X | X |
| Enrollment | |||||
| Owner | Grant and revoke specified enrollment rights. | X | X | X | X |
| Read | Access data, including grades, that is associated with the specified enrollments. | X | X | X | X |
| Objective | |||||
| Owner | Access objectives and objective maps from specified objective sets. | ||||
| Read | Make changes (add, update, or delete) to objectives and objective maps from specified objective sets. | ||||
Summary of Permissions by Role – Course Level
Below is a table that provides a summary of the permissions provided to the default user roles in GradPoint at the course enrollment level.
| Permission | Permission Description | Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administrator | Teacher-Author | Teacher | Student | ||
| Course | |||||
| Read | Access (read) specified courses in the domain. | X | X | X | X |
| Participate | Complete activities in specified courses; this permission is only available for student users. | X | |||
| Owner | Grant rights to specified courses. | X | X | X | |
| Read Full | 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. | X | X | X | |
| Edit | Make changes to specified courses in the domain. | X | X | ||
| Delete | Delete specified courses from the domain. | X | |||
| Report | Run reports using specified course data. | ||||
| View Gradebook | Access specified course Gradebooks. | X | X | X | |
| Setup Gradebook | Setup specified course Gradebooks and make changes to their settings (grading schemes, grade scales, item weight, etc.) in Activity Data and Course Data. | X | X | X | |
| Grade Assessments | Grade assessments in specified courses. | X | X | X | |
| Grade Assignments | Grade assignments in specified courses. | X | X | X | |
| Grade Discussions | Grade discussion activities in specified courses. | X | X | X | |
| Submit Final Grades | Submit final grades for specified courses and their grading periods. | X | X | X | |