In user accounts what do the roles allow?

What are roles?

The Role assigned to each user account on Capsule is mapped to the Permissions available on the platform. Different roles have different capabilities, the main ones are as follow:

Standard

The default and for normal students

• Answer cases

• Create and manage quizzes

• Check your own statistics

• Update your profile

Tutor

As Standard plus:

• User the Presenter mode for Cases, to step through without scoring

• Look up a student account, see their scores, progress and profile

Staff

As Tutor plus:

• View and export statistics for whole cohorts

• Recommend quizzes to be shared across a school

Institute Admin

As Staff plus:

• Perform User Administration - creating, updating and deactivating accounts

• View specialty reports and export the data

Institute Admins will also be the main contacts for service announcements and can raise support queries with the Capsule support team.

Changing a user's role

Institute Administrators can change a user’s role at any time through the User Admin feature.

• Select the Admin Menu then Users

• Find the account to change and select ‘Edit'

• Find Role and from the drop down select the new role

• Select Update

The user will need to log out and back in again for the new permissions to take effect.