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Roles

Everyone in a workspace has a role, and every role is held somewhere: on the whole organisation, or on one unit such as a faculty, a department or a team. A role on a unit covers everything below it, so a unit admin on the Faculty of Science also runs its departments.

The five roles

Universities and companies see slightly different names for the same roles.

Role	University label	Company label	What they do
Org admin	Org admin	Org admin	Everything: settings, domains, API keys, webhooks, suspending people.
Unit admin	Unit admin	Unit admin	Runs their unit: courses, offerings, publishing, people in the unit.
Lecturer	Lecturer	Trainer	Writes course versions and submits them for review, runs offerings.
TA	TA	TA	Helps run offerings: rosters, results, watching labs live.
Student	Student	Employee	Takes courses in My learning.

Where a role reaches

Grace is unit admin on the Faculty of Science, so her role reaches both departments and every course under them. Daniel is a lecturer on Computer Science only.

Who can give which role

An org admin can give any role, on any unit or on the whole organisation.
A unit admin can give only lecturer, TA or student, and only inside their own unit.
Lecturers, TAs and students can’t invite anyone.

Lagoon City University›People›Sarah Bennett

Sarah Bennett

[email protected] · joined 3 Oct 2026

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Role: TA · Lecturer · Student
Unit: Computer Science
Covers: CSC 111, CSC 211, CSC 305

Changing someone's role on the People page. A unit admin's menu offers only the roles they're allowed to give.

To change roles, see People and invites.