We have several different user roles available in Thinkific, from Site Admins to Affiliates. Learn how to assign a new role to one of your users!
In this article:
Assign a Role While Creating a User
Assign a Role to an Existing User
Assign a Community Moderator Role
Overview
User Roles can be assigned to your team to help manage various tasks within your site - from the Course Admin role that allows assigned users to create and edit courses and view student progress, to the Affiliate role that allows you to connect your affiliate partners with their commission reports, Site Owner and User Roles offer you a variety of ways to work more efficiently within your organization.
By default, all new accounts will be created as student accounts unless you assign a different role during creation. User Roles, and the number of User Roles you are able to assign, are determined by your Thinkific pricing plan level.
User roles can be assigned to users:
- While creating a new user, or
- By adding a role to an existing user in Thinkific
Assign a Role While Creating a User
To assign a role while creating a user, simply follow the steps below. If you forget to assign a role while creating a user, you can always assign the role afterward by following the steps in the next section!
- Click on Support Your Students and select Users
- Select New User on the top right
- Fill in User details
- In User roles section, check off the desired Role
- Select Save on the top right
Assign a Role to an Existing User
- Click on Support Your Students and select Users
- Locate the desired User within the list, and click the ellipses (three dots) beside their name
- Select Edit
- Under Details, Select User roles
- In the User roles section, check off the desired Role
- Select Save on the top right