Administration settings permissions

Administration settings give users access to administer areas of Schoology from a school or system-wide level. We recommend limiting these permissions to System Admin and other key faculty at the school or organization.

User Administration

• Administer users

  • Enabled: Gives permission to access the Manage Users area of User Management.

  • Disabled: The Manage Users area is not accessible for this role.

System Administration

• • View courses

    • Enabled: Gives permission to review all courses in the school. While the user may not be enrolled in the courses, they'll have view-only access to all courses in the school(s) with which they are associated.

    • Disabled: The role can only see courses in which they are enrolled.

  • Administer courses

    • Enabled: Gives permission to administer all courses in the school with the ability to act as the course admin. If associated with the school district/parent organization, the user will have full access to all courses in all school and organization buildings.

    • Disabled: The role cannot administer courses they are not enrolled in.

    • Prerequisite permissions: View courses

  • Administer groups

    • Enabled: Gives permission to administer all groups in the school with the ability to act as the group admin. If associated with the school district/parent organization, the user will have full access to all groups in all buildings.

    • Disabled: The role cannot administer groups they are not enrolled in.

    • Prerequisite permissions: View courses

  • Administer school

    • Enabled: Gives permission to access System Settings, School Analytics, Import, and Export features by selecting School Management from the Tools menu.

    • Disabled: School Management features are not accessible for this role.

    • Prerequisite permissions: View courses

• Administer comments

  • Enabled: Gives permission to edit or remove comments (responses) posted by any user in courses, groups, or the school they administer.

  • Disabled: The role cannot edit or remove other users' comments.

• Administer blog posts

  • Enabled: Gives permission to edit, unpublish, or delete blog posts created by any user in the school they administer.

  • Disabled: The role cannot manage other users' blog posts.

• Administer applications

  • Enabled: Gives permission to install apps that require configuration at the school level. It also gives permission to install and configure apps at the school level.

  • Disabled: The role cannot install or configure school-level apps.

Advisor Setting

• Advisor Access

  • Enabled: Gives access to the Advisees tab without having to be associated with advisees in the Parents/Advisors tab.

  • Disabled: The Advisees tab is not accessible unless the user is directly associated with advisees.