⏱️ The Essentials in 3 Minutes |
🧠 Understand the Pedagogical Value of the Author Role
The quality of a learning path depends largely on the quality of its design. The Author role lets you delegate content creation and editing to your instructional team, while protecting administration, statistics, and publishing.
Concrete benefit: your authors work comfortably in the Projects tab, with no risk to learner data or live publications.
📌 Example: a team of 3 authors on an onboarding path. You give them author access to your platform. They co-build the modules and their publications, but cannot touch HR statistics or user accounts.
💡 If your platform has multiple training spaces, see Assign an Author Role in a Multi-Space Platform to learn how to limit the author's scope to specific spaces.
🔐 Identify Author Permissions
On a single-space platform, an author has the following permissions:
Access | Author |
Access and edit collaborative projects | ✅ |
Access other authors' personal projects | ❌ Own personal projects only |
Access publications | ✅ Those where they are author or co-author |
Create and edit projects | ✅ Those where they are author or co-author |
Create and edit publications (without publishing) | ✅ Those where they are author or co-author |
Create programs (without publishing) | ✅ |
Configure certificates, comments, and final assessment for a publication | ✅ |
Edit dates and locations of in-person modules | ✅ |
Edit publication settings (including locking) | ✅ |
Regardless of their scope, an author cannot:
Manage publication distribution.
Access statistics (publications or platform).
Manage users.
Administer the platform.
⚠️ If any of these permissions are needed for the person in question, consider assigning a coach or admin role instead.
⚙️ Assign the Author Role
The role assignment procedure is covered in a dedicated article:
There you will find the steps to add a user and assign them the author role on your platform.
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