Site roles define what every user in your environment can see and do. This article lists every site-role permission and what it controls.
Cirrus ships with default roles (Admin, Author, Candidate) and lets you create more roles for your organisation's needs, for example a dedicated Marker or Invigilator role. A user with a custom role only has access to the parts of the platform their role unlocks.
Roles are managed by your site administrator under Admin > Roles. See also access levels.
Sorting
The number in the Sorting column controls the left-to-right order of the role columns in the overview. It is purely a display setting and does not change permissions. The role with the highest number is shown first on the left — usually System Administrator.
Role type
A role's type controls what kinds of users a holder can add or edit. For example, System Admins can deputise user management for a group within the hierarchy to Admins.
Functionality permissions
Dashboard
| Permission | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | Shows the personal dashboard with collections and notifications. |
Library
| Permission | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Library | Shows the Library menu item. |
| View collections tab | Shows the Collections tab inside Library. |
| Add collections | Makes the Add collection button visible. |
| Collections — use trash can | Shows the trash-can filter in collections. |
| View items tab | Shows the Items tab inside Library. |
| View media elements tab | Shows the Media elements tab inside Library. |
| Add media elements | Makes the Add button visible on the Media elements tab. |
Library must be enabled if any sub-permission under Library is enabled.
Assessments
| Permission | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Assessments | Shows the Assessments menu item. |
| View assessments overview tab | Shows the Assessments tab listing all your own and shared assessments. |
| Add assessments | Adds the + Add assessment button. |
| View assessment statistics tab | Shows the Statistics tab on the assessment dashboard. |
Assessments must be enabled if any sub-permission under Assessments is enabled.
Delivering
| Permission | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Delivering | Shows the Delivering menu item. |
| View schedule tab | Shows the Schedule tab under Delivering. |
| View invigilation tab | Shows the Invigilation tab under Delivering. |
| View Candidate review tab | Shows the Candidate review tab under Delivering. |
| View user logs | By default, only an invigilator assigned to a schedule can see the user logs. An admin can grant a wider role this permission to view logs for every schedule whose hierarchy the user belongs to. |
| Allow printing of assessments | Lets the invigilator use the print options on the invigilation dashboard. |
| Allow previewing of assessments | Lets schedulers preview their assessments. Requires anonymous sharing to be enabled. |
| Send messages | Lets the invigilator send messages to candidates during the exam. |
Delivering must be enabled if any sub-permission under Delivering is enabled.
Marking
| Permission | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Marking | Shows the Marking menu item. |
| View coordinator tab | Shows the Coordinator tab under Marking. The permission only reveals the tab; whether the user can see content inside is controlled by user-level permissions. |
| View assess tab | Shows the Assess tab under Marking. |
| View results tab | Shows the Results tab under Marking. Only schedules the coordinator has assigned to the user appear. |
| View Rescoring tab | Shows the Rescoring tab under Marking. The tab is revealed by this permission; content inside depends on the user's per-hierarchy Re-scoring permission. |
| Void attempts | Adds the void option on the marking submission and result page. |
Marking must be enabled if any sub-permission under Marking is enabled.
Reports
| Permission | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Reports | Shows the Reports menu item. |
| View Results | Shows the Results tab under Reports. The user must also have the user-level view reports permission to see content. |
| Assessment performance | Shows the Assessment performance tab under Reports. |
| Limited reports access only | Restricts Excel export options. In most cases, leave this disabled so the full export is available. |
General
| Permission | What it enables |
|---|---|
| View proctored recordings | Direct access to the Proctorio gradebook recordings from Marking > Results and Reports > Results. |
| View score report (always) | Always shows the score report in Reports > Results. When disabled, visibility is governed by the assessment options. |
Participate
Participate lets the user take an exam as a candidate.
Candidates normally have only this permission enabled. An author can also have it enabled, in which case they choose Author or Delivery at login.
Start page
Start page sets the user's default landing page after login. Options:
- None
- Admin
- Dashboard
- Library
- Assessments
- Schedule
- Invigilation
- Marking
- Reports
Administration permissions
| Permission | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Manage users | Shows the Users menu under Admin. Content depends on the user's hierarchy-level administrator permission. |
| Allow login as | Lets the user sign in as another user from Admin > Users by clicking the eye icon, with no password needed. |
| Manage hierarchies | Manage hierarchies. |
| Manage clusters | Manage clusters. |
| Manage content | Use Content management. |
| Manage trash can | Manage the trash can. |
| Manage themes | Manage themes. |
| Manage integrations | Use the integration tooling: API, webhooks, LTI, SAML. |
| Manage global settings | Manage global settings. |
| Manage assessment settings | Manage assessment scales. |
| Manage learning objectives | Manage learning objectives. |
| Manage taxonomies | Manage taxonomies. |
| Manage labels | Manage site labels. |
| Manage regional settings | Manage regional settings. |
| Manage roles | Manage roles. Never disable this for your System Administrator role. |
| Manage lock-down browser | Manage Safe Exam Browser settings. |