Experiences can have custom roles set for educators who join the experience to control which functionality they will have access to. This can be helpful when inviting people such as teaching assistants, tutors, or mentors to an experience to help with its management.
General
Permissions
The permissions available that can be used in any combination on experience roles are:
Name | Description |
Applications | The ability to read, create, and update applications from teams to projects |
Feedback | The ability to create feedback authored by the experience and respond to feedback received by the experience |
Imports | The ability to perform batch imports of data within the experience |
Match Requests | The ability to read, create, and update match requests for the experience. |
Members | The ability to invite and manage members and learners of the experience |
Posts | The ability to create and manage posts for the experience |
Teams | The ability to create and manage learner teams for the experience |
Observers
If you are running a large experience, or just want to assign designated mentors, leaders, or assistants to your teams of learners to monitor their progress, help keep them on track, and offer general support, observers are the solution in combination with custom roles.
By adding observers to your experience and assigning them to teams, they will be able to follow the team's progress right from the beginning of a project. Observers are given read only access to team activity such as milestones, submissions, conversations and more, so they can follow along and offer support as needed.
Read our full observer guide here.
How to
Creating a role
To create a role for an experience:
Navigate to your experience.
Click on the "Settings" tab.
Click on "Roles" below the "Members" group of the available settings.
Click on the "New" button.
Fill in the form providing a role name and the permissions you wish to apply.
Click "Submit" to finish creating your role.
Riipen also provides default roles for experiences which cannot be modified. You will always see these roles listed and all members who join your experience will by default be placed into one of these roles.
Editing a role
To edit a role for an experience:
Navigate to your experience
Click on the "Settings" tab on the experience page
Click on "Roles" below the "Members" group of the available settings
Click on the the role you wish to edit
Click on the "Edit" button
Make any modifications you want to make and then click "Submit" to finish editing your role.
Editing a role with change the associated permissions for any user which is assigned to that role currently.
Deleting a role
In order to delete a role, you must first migrate all members currently assigned to that role to a different role.
To delete a role for an experience:
Navigate to your experience
Click on the "Settings" tab on the experience page
Click on "Roles" below the "Members" group of the available settings
Click on the the role you wish to edit
Click on the "Delete" button