Site Roles
  • 21 Aug 2024
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Article summary

Site roles are used to define permissions for everyone who can work on your environment. This article explains how this works.

Cirrus provides a set of default roles, like Admin, Author and Candidate. But these can be expanded depending on the complexity of the organisation.

For example you can create a specific Marker role or Invigilator role. Users with these roles will only have access to specific parts of the Cirrus platform needed to perform their tasks.

Roles are set up by the admin of the site and have a very high level of customisation.

Go to Admin > Roles to set it up.

Sorting

Changing the numbers in the 'Sorting' row allows you to change the order of the columns. This is only an adjustment of the visible presentation. It will not change anything about the individual roles and rights. The role with the highest number will be shown on the most left of the overview. Most likely this is the system administrator.

Roles Type

Cirrus offers the possibility to your organisation to flexibly setup roles which in turn define the level of access and permission for your users. In other words: Roles define what users can see and do in the system.

The type of role a user has defines what type of other users he can add or edit. For example System Admins in Cirrus can deputise the user management for groups within the hierarchy to Admins.

A more detailed explanation can be found on the access levels arcticle

Functionality

Dashboard

DashboardShows a personal dashboard with information about collections and notifications

Library

LibraryShows the 'Library menu item'. Library Menu item
View collections tabShows the 'Collections' tab in the menu Library Library Menu item
Add collectionsAllows you to 'add new Collections'. Add button is made visible
Collections - use trash canIn the collection the Trashcan filter view is made visible
View items tabShows 'Items' tab in the menu Library. To get a full overview off all items trought your collections. Library Menu item
View media elements tabShows 'Media elements' tab in the menu Library. To get a full overview off all media elements within your collections.
Add media elementsAdd media elements > Allows you to add new media elements in 'media elements' tab

'Library' permission should be enabled if any of the underlying library permissions are enabled.

Assessments

AssessmentsShows the 'Assessment menu item'. Library Menu item
View assessments overview tabShows the 'Assessments' tab on the menu item Assessments. It will show all your own or shared assessment.
Add assessmentsAllows you to add a new assessment on the 'Assessment' tab
View assessment statistics tabShows the Statistics tab on the Assessment menu. It will allow you to see the statistic details.

'Assessments' permission should be enabled if any of the underlying Assessment permissions are enabled.

Delivering

DeliveringShows the 'Delivering menu item'. Library Menu item
View schedule tabShows the 'Schedule' tab on the menu item Delivering
View invigilation tabShows the 'Invigilation' tab on the menu item Delivering
View Candidate review tabShows the 'Candidate Review' tab under the Delivering menu.
View user logsNormally only an invigilator assigned to a schedule has access to the user logs, alternatively your Admin can grant you the right to view these via Roles > Site > 'View user logs'. This will allow the user with this permission to view all schedules that have a hierarchy assigned of which the user is a member.
Allow printing of assessmentsThe invigilator has a couple of print options available when selecting candidates and clicking on 'Print' in the invigilator dashboard, more info
Allow previewing of assessmentsAllows the schedulers to preview their assessments completly. Works only with anonymous sharing enabled, see more info
Send messagesAllows the invigilators to send messages to the candidates during the delivery of the exam.

'Delivering' permission should be enabled if any of the underlying Delivering permissions are enabled.

Marking

MarkingShows the 'Marking menu item'. Library Menu item
View coordinator tabShows the 'Coordinator' tab under Marking menu, please note this permission does not show any content, that is been done via user permissions.
View assess tabShows the 'Assess' tab under Marking menu.
View results tabShows the 'Results' tab under Marking menu, only assigned schedules by the coordinator will be shown.
View Rescoring tabShows the 'Rescoring' tab under Marking menu, please note this permission does not show any content, that is been done via user permission on hierarchy level "Re-scoring"
Void attemptsVoiding option on marking submission & result page

'Marking' permission should be enabled if any of the underlying Delivering permissions are enabled.

Reports

ReportsShows the 'Marking menu item'. Library Menu item
View ResultsShows the 'Results' tab under Reports menu, allows you to see results if user permission 'view reports' is enabled in user management
Assessment performanceShows the 'Assessment performance' tab under Reports menu
Limited reports access onlyBy enabling this permission you have limited excel export options, in most cases we advise to disable this permission in order to have all options

General

General
View proctored recordingsDirect link on to the gradebook recordings on the:
1. Marking > Result tab
2. Reports > Result tab
View score report (always)Will always show score reports in the Reports > Results. When disabled it will be defined by the assessment options

Participate

'Participate' allows the user to take an actual exam as a candidate.
Normally a candidate role would only have this permission enabled.

However an author could also have this turned on and thus take exams. When loggin in to Cirrus the user will be asked with what role to login, either 'Author' or 'Delivery'

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Start page

Startpage will direct the user to a default startpage. The following options are possible:

  • none
  • admin
  • Dashboard
  • Library
  • Assessments
  • Schedule
  • Invigilation
  • Marking
  • Reports

Administration

Manage usersAllows you to see the user menu within the admin menu. Content will only be showed if user permission 'administrator' is setup for an hierarchy
Allow login asIf this has been enabled you can login as a user by going to Admin > Users and clicking on the 'eye' icon next to the user details without useing any credentials
Manage hierarchiesAllows you to manage hierarchies
Manage clustersAllows you to manage Clusters
Manage contentAllows you to use Content management
Manage trash canAllows you to manage the trashcan
Manage themesAllows you to manage themes
Manage integrationsAllows you to use webservices integrations such as API, webhook,LTI, SAML
Manage global settingsAllows you to manage the global settings
Manage assessment settingsAllows you to manage assessment scales
Manage learning objectivesAllows you to mange learning objectives
Manage taxonomiesAllows you to manage taxonomies
Manage labelsAllows you to manage site labels
Manage regional settingsAllows you to manage the regional settings
Manage rolesAllows you to manage roles. NOTE: Please never disable this for your system administrator role
Manage lock-down browserAllows you to manage the Safe exam browser settings

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