Roles and Permissions Open edX

Roles LMS

Course Staff and Course Admin can assign permissions to new users to limit their permissions. Each user can log on to the LMS App; their Role will dictate which parts of the App are accessible. Each user can edit their password.

Roles and Permissions

Role	Description
Course Admin	Platform administrator and support agents.
Course Staff	Instructors and content creators.
Course Data Researcher	Instructor assistant, grade manager, course monitor
Discussion Moderator	Assistant instructor, course instructor
Beta Tester	Beta users, course instructor
Student	For Students

Permissions by Role (LMS)

The following table displays which actions in the app each user has access to.

Permissions

Roles	Creation of organizations	Access to Studio	Create and edit content	Grant or revoke permits	Have full access to the instructor dashboard in the LMS	Access to the course before the start date	Send emails to students	Reset number of attempts	Edit, delete and manage comments in student forums	View the course after the start date	Participate in discussion forums	Access to the “Data Download” tab of the Instructor dashboard
Course Admin	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Course Staff	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Course Data Researcher	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Discussion Moderator	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Beta tester	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Student	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No

Roles DJANGO SYSADMIN

Roles with which you can access the django admin where you can view your site logs and more.

Roles and Permissions

Role	Description
Sysadmin	User with the most permissions granted.
Sys staff	User with which you can login to DJANGO admin

Permissions by Role (DJANGO ADMIN)

Permissions

Roles	Access to Django Sysadmin	Access to all tables to modify records manually	Restricting access to tables to staff users	Access to authorized tables
Sysadmin	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Sys staff	Yes	No	No	Yes