{"id":15289,"date":"2022-03-24T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T10:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/?p=15289"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:27:07","slug":"custom-user-roles-lms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/product\/updates\/custom-user-roles-lms\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Custom User Roles: The Smarter Way To Collaborate for Your Online School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_78 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/product\/updates\/custom-user-roles-lms\/#What_are_LearnWorlds_Custom_User_Roles\" >What are LearnWorlds Custom User Roles?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/product\/updates\/custom-user-roles-lms\/#Custom_User_Roles_are_good_for_business\" >Custom User Roles are good for business<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/product\/updates\/custom-user-roles-lms\/#Tailor_permission_based_on_your_collaborators_needs\" >Tailor permission based on your collaborators\u2019 needs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/product\/updates\/custom-user-roles-lms\/#The_cherry_on_top_Provide_super_fast_support_to_your_customers_with_User_Impersonation\" >The cherry on top. Provide super fast support to your customers with User Impersonation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/product\/updates\/custom-user-roles-lms\/#Ready_to_unlock_a_new_level_for_your_school_with_Custom_User_Roles\" >Ready to unlock a new level for your school with Custom User Roles?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Tailor your school to your organization, scale when you decide, and streamline every collaboration. How?<\/p>\n<p>LearnWorlds Custom User Roles make it easy to grant access to your school with just a few clicks:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"newsletter-list\">\n<li>Streamline your workflow with clearly defined roles<\/li>\n<li>Keep sensitive information safe by restricting access<\/li>\n<li>Boost your team\u2019s productivity by providing a sleek interface<\/li>\n<li>Delegate with confidence and free up time!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"iframe-wrapper\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G7Y8PTJft30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_LearnWorlds_Custom_User_Roles\"><\/span>What are LearnWorlds Custom User Roles?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Custom User Roles are a great way to granularly control access to areas and features within the LearnWorlds Platform. By specifying which users should have access to which areas, you can ensure that only the appropriate individuals can access sensitive data or perform certain actions.<\/p>\n<p>Custom User Roles also make it easy to keep track of who has access to which areas of the platform, as you can simply add or remove users from specific roles as needed. As a result, Custom User Roles provides an effective way to limit or grant access to specific areas of your LearnWorlds online academy, making it a powerful tool to support your business.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title-with-block\">Flexible and still in charge? Possible!<\/h3>\n<p>Just because you are the school owner, doesn\u2019t mean you need to do everything. The new Custom User Roles are the key functionality when you need to <strong>delegate without worrying about losing control<\/strong> over your school.<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s face it when you have a thriving business, or if you work in a complex organization, you do need to make sure that:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"newsletter-list\">\n<li>You share financial information with a restricted audience<\/li>\n<li>Instructors cannot take content from courses that are not theirs<\/li>\n<li>Designers won\u2019t have access to any data other than branding elements<\/li>\n<li>Learners&#8217; data is not available to external collaborators<\/li>\n<li>Clients can access only their courses and not others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or you might simply want to avoid the usual confusion about \u201cwho does what\u201d. That\u2019s how you hoard your crew!<\/p>\n<h3>Deciding who accesses what is up to you<\/h3>\n<p>With the new Custom User Roles, <strong>deciding who accesses what is up to you<\/strong>. The Custom User Roles empower you to easily organize your LearnWorlds school by matching user permission levels with their work responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Your <strong>confidential data and course contents are safe<\/strong>, the team&#8217;s tasks are clear, and external collaborators have boundaries. Using Custom User Roles means that you can organize your teams online like they are organized in the office. Or even better!<\/p>\n<div class=\"center_img-center_caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center_img blog-img\" style=\"width: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/app\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image2.jpg\" alt=\"More control and data ownership for elearning courses with the new roles. Showing two people sharing administrative roles.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Compliance and speed go hand in hand<\/h3>\n<p>As a business, you are responsible for protecting the data privacy of your students. Custom User Roles can help you micro-manage who gets access to what, ensuring that only authorized individuals can view sensitive information. This, in turn, helps you remain compliant with ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, or any other data protection or legal compliance framework that applies to your business.<\/p>\n<p>Custom User Roles allows you to granularly control what each user can do within the system, preventing misuse of the platform and protecting the integrity of your data. By utilizing Custom User Roles, you can have peace of mind knowing that you are taking the necessary steps to safeguard your student&#8217;s data privacy.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title-with-block\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Custom_User_Roles_are_good_for_business\"><\/span>Custom User Roles are good for business<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Setting Custom User Roles is key for all those businesses that rely on collaboration to build their success. No matter if these collaborations are internal or external. Let&#8217;s see some examples.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title-italic\" style=\"font-size: 25px;\">1. External collaborations<\/h3>\n<p>External collaborations are a huge helping hand, especially when building and promoting your school. But are you comfortable giving access to freelancers and agencies without limitations? Or simply without overwhelming external collaborators with school functions not relevant to them?<\/p>\n<p>Custom User Roles enable you to have peace of mind when granting access to external agencies. They will be able to run with the job you commissioned &#8211; for example, designing your school or running promotional activities &#8211; without having access to your instructional content or students&#8217; data.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title-italic\" style=\"font-size: 25px;\">2. Training organizations with B2B clients<\/h3>\n<p>When you&#8217;re in business with larger clients, they want to see firsthand how their employees (your learners!) are doing &#8211; they may not have the patience to wait for a report, or they may want to dig further. So what do you do?<\/p>\n<p>Easy. Share access to the relevant data with the HR team or team leaders. They will be able to inspect their employees&#8217; data autonomously: you will save time, and they will appreciate your transparency. In addition, they will be able to see only the relevant data to their organization &#8211; no one else&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title-italic\" style=\"font-size: 25px;\">3. Employee training<\/h3>\n<p>Upskilling your workforce is a true challenge. It takes time and effort from both the administrative and instructional sides. You may require external instructors to create courses for you. However, you don&#8217;t want them to have unrestricted access to other courses you&#8217;re running, for example. You may want them to have only a simplified version of the platform. In addition, you may need team leaders to see only their own team\u2019s progress and not others. These scenarios are now possible with Custom User Roles.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title-italic\" style=\"font-size: 25px;\">4. Customer education<\/h3>\n<p>Similar to training organization and employee training, customer education is an integral part of your business. So being able to provide specific access to external collaborators, instructors, and clients team leads is not just about education &#8211; but right at the core of your business operations.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title-italic\" style=\"font-size: 25px;\">5. Marketplace<\/h3>\n<p>Suppose you run a marketplace with different instructors, assistants, clients, etc. In that case, you need to ensure your external instructors that their content is in safe hands and other fellow instructors will not be able to modify it.<\/p>\n<p>The best instructors out there are conscientious when sharing their unique content. Custom User Roles will give you a strong advantage when hiring new instructors and giving them guarantees about their content protection.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title-with-block\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tailor_permission_based_on_your_collaborators_needs\"><\/span>Tailor permission based on your collaborators\u2019 needs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You can create an entirely custom user role and tailor it depending on your collaborator\u2019s exact needs or responsibilities. How? You can mix and match specific <strong>data segments, courses<\/strong>, and even <strong>functions<\/strong> of the school. Test what works best for your organization!<\/p>\n<p>However, we know that creating something completely custom can be a little overwhelming at first. So you can choose between creating a role from scratch or adjusting any of the <strong>thirteen predefined User Roles<\/strong> and then assign them to your collaborators.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title-italic\" style=\"font-size: 25px;\">13 Predefined Roles to get you started<\/h3>\n<p>To get your collaborators sorted in no time, we created thirteen predefined User Roles that you can use out of the box or <strong>further customize <\/strong>(down to page level!). For your convenience, we broke them down under three major categories of permissions: Administrative, Instructional, Reporting. First, let\u2019s take a look at the predefined roles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center_img-center_caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center_img blog-img\" style=\"width: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/app\/uploads\/2022\/03\/User-Roles_blog-image_-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Custom user roles on LearnWorlds. Admins, instructors, Manager, Reporter, Designer, Developer\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"img-label\">LearnWorlds Predefined Customizable User Roles for Your Academy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\n\n\n<table class=\"newsletter-table\" style=\"border-spacing:7px 7px; border-collapse:separate; background-color:#ffffff\">\n\n\n<thead>\n\n\n<tr>\n\n\n<th colspan=\"3\" class=\"newsletter-table-h\" style=\"background-color:#050745; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Admin<\/th>\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n<tbody>\n\n\n<tr>\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#9bd0f4; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Financial Manager<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#9bd0f4; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Mobile Manager<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#9bd0f4; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Customer Support<\/td>\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#9bd0f4; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Marketer<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#9bd0f4; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Designer<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#9bd0f4; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Developer<\/td>\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#9bd0f4; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Affiliate manager<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#ffd24d; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Segment Manager<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#ffd24d; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Segment Reporter<\/td>\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#ac7dfd; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Course Creator<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#ac7dfd; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Instructor<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n<td class=\"newsletter-table-cell\" width=\"25%\" style=\"background-color:#ac7dfd; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">Assistant Instructor<\/td>\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n\n<th colspan=\"3\" class=\"newsletter-table-h\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#050745; font-weight:bold\">+<\/th>\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n\n<th colspan=\"3\" class=\"newsletter-table-h\" style=\"background-color:#050745; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold\">What role will you create?<\/th>\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n<\/tbody>\n\n\n<\/table>\n\n\n--><\/p>\n<p>The roles falling under the <em>Administrative category<\/em> benefit from permissions that span across functionalities of the school. Let\u2019s take a look at <strong>some examples<\/strong> from the predefined roles:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admin<\/strong><br \/>\nThe admin usually is the school owner. You can see and update anything within the school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Financial manager<\/strong><br \/>\nYour accounting team will be able to manage sales, subscriptions, invoice settings, financial settings, and sales analytics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Customer support<\/strong><br \/>\nThe support team will be able to resolve any issues quickly by viewing what your customers see by logging in as a user (more on this later!), managing your users, and accessing the school activity log.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marketer<\/strong><br \/>\nProvide access to your marketing team or agency the tools they need to manage your marketing and sales strategy, such as coupons, plan promotions, bundles, affiliates, leads, sales, and analytics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Designer<\/strong><br \/>\nGive Web Designers the tools to build you a stunning school website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Developer<\/strong><br \/>\nEnable Developers to enhance your website with custom code; setup the API integrations and webhooks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affiliate manager<\/strong><br \/>\nEnable Affiliate Managers to manage the affiliates by creating affiliates, managing affiliate settings, approving affiliate payments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mobile manager<\/strong><br \/>\nThey can finalize your mobile setup and look &amp; feel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center_img-center_caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center_img blog-img\" style=\"width: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/app\/uploads\/2022\/03\/graphic-roles_access.png\" alt=\"Mobile manager role example for LearnWorlds Academies. Showing an elearning app with a specialized role to manage the mobile app.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The predefined roles under the <em>Reporting category<\/em> are allowed to access only the data of your school learners specific to the segments assigned to them. Therefore, these users can access user progress and analytics for these learners. By default, access to any other part of your school is not permitted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Segment manager<\/strong><br \/>\nSegment Managers can review the progress manage grade books and certifications of the users of a specific segment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Segment reporter<\/strong><br \/>\nSegment Reporters can review the users&#8217; progress of a specific segment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center_img-center_caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center_img blog-img\" style=\"width: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/app\/uploads\/2022\/03\/graphic-roles_segments.png\" alt=\"Elearning segment reporter role on LearnWorlds. Report on different segments of users. Showing two different segment reporters and their groups of users.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The predefined roles in the <em>instructional category<\/em> grant access to anything related to courses. Depending on the level of permission given, these users will be able to create and edit the courses they are assigned to, view grade books, course insight, and sales analytics. However, Site Builder, Mobile App Builder, marketing tools, User management, and school settings are off-limits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course creator<\/strong><br \/>\nCourse Creators have the special permissions to create, manage, and publish their own courses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructor<\/strong><br \/>\nInstructors can edit the courses assigned to them without being able to create new courses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant instructor<\/strong><br \/>\nAssistant Instructors can review assignments and grade the courses that have been assigned to them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center_img-center_caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center_img blog-img\" style=\"width: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.learnworlds.com\/app\/uploads\/2022\/03\/graphic-roles_permissions.png\" alt=\"User role for assistant instructor example on LearnWorlds. Able to edit specific parts of the website and courses.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"title-italic\" style=\"font-size: 25px;\">Not enough roles? Easily create your own!<\/h3>\n<p>Feeling inspired, but none of these roles cut it for you? No worries, just create a new role from scratch or nip and tuck the predefined roles until they are just perfect for your team\u2019s needs. Remember, you are tailoring your online school to your business, not the way around!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title-with-block\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_cherry_on_top_Provide_super_fast_support_to_your_customers_with_User_Impersonation\"><\/span>The cherry on top. Provide super fast support to your customers with User Impersonation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Along with Custom User Roles, we added an extra superpower for Admins. With User Impersonation, you can <strong>log in as any user of your school<\/strong> and see exactly what they can see.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, you can perform two key actions for your school: test the setting of your newly customized user roles, and, most importantly, provide super fast and efficient technical support to your clients!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccc Want to dive in even deeper? Access our <a href=\"https:\/\/support.learnworlds.com\/support\/solutions\/folders\/12000018731\">support articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title-with-block\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ready_to_unlock_a_new_level_for_your_school_with_Custom_User_Roles\"><\/span>Ready to unlock a new level for your school with Custom User Roles?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Leave behind fears about getting external collaborators, granting access to your content, or any uncertainty around protecting your sensitive data. Knowing \u2018who is doing what\u2019 with Custom User Roles it\u2019s easy. Free your hands of tedious tasks, delegate, and focus on growing your business.<\/p>\n<p>If you are currently on a Learning Center plan or higher, you can start creating User Roles now. Not with LearnWorlds yet? 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