Typically students are added as Authors on sites and/or Members of groups. This gives students the ability to create blog posts or contribute to discussion but not the ability to change the site or group in any way.

Site User Roles and Permissions:

• Administrator – has access to all the administrative duties
• Editor – can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts
• Author – can publish and manage their own posts
• Contributor – can write and manage their posts but not publish post
• Subscriber – can read comments, and receive comment and news letters

Group User Roles and Permissions:

• Administrator – has access to all the administrative duties such as adding members, posting and deleting in the forum, adding and deleting library items
• Moderator –posting and deleting from the forum, adding and deleting library items
• Member – can post to the forum, add library items
• Participant – Can create and edit their own topics and replies.
• Blocked – All capabilities are explicitly blocked.