Cidiscape Admin User Guide Roles & User Permissions

Overview

Cidiscape is designed with flexibility in mind. We understand that individuals at your institution need different levels of data and access. As such, there are many levels of access that users may be given, depending on what data they need to see.

Cidiscape administrators can assign users administrative, edit, or read-only rights in Teams, and then give those Teams access to Batches of courses. Team Members can then view data on those courses via Quick Views.

Role Types

The following panels will describe the different roles and levels of user permissions in Cidiscape:

Institutional Admin

Users who have the Institutional Admin role can see and edit everything in Cidiscape. They can:

Create and edit Teams and Batches
Assign Users to Teams
Adjust User Permissions and Teams
Assign Teams to Batches
Assign Task Runners
View all institutional data in Cidiscape

Team Member

If a user in Cidiscape is not an Institutional Admin, they will need to be a Team Member whose Team is assigned to Batches, in order to see any data.

There are three levels of permission within Teams:

Is (Team) Admin

Team Members with is Admin permissions can edit the Team membership and roles by:

Adding or removing Team Members
Changing Team Member's permissions

In the Batches area, they can:

Add courses to a Batch
Create, Edit, and View Quick Views
Apply Filters and Manage Columns
Export Batch data to CSV

Can Edit

Team Members with Can Edit access can:

Add courses to a Batch
Create, Edit, and View their own Quick Views
Apply Filters and Manage Columns
Export Batch data to CSV

They cannot edit the Team to add/remove members or change their role permissions. This is reserved for the Is Admin role.

Read Only

Team Members with Read Only access can view data within the Cidiscape Batches to which they've been assigned. They can:

View existing Quick Views
Apply Filters and Manage Columns in their view
Export Batch data to CSV

Team Members of any access level will be able to:

View all data within Batches that have been assigned to their Team(s).
View any Quick Views that have been shared with the institution.

Specific Permissions

For more information on specific role permissions, please see the Permissions section of Batches, Quick Views, and Teams.

Task Runner

Cidiscape needs to pull data from your Canvas Institution, in order to provide the information you will see in your Batches and Quick Views.

These queries of Canvas Data must occur through a Canvas User Account that has been marked as a Cidiscape Task Runner.

We recommend that you create a "dummy" user in Canvas whose access will only be used for this Task Runner purpose.

Task Runner Permissions

The Canvas account you select must be an administrator in your Canvas instance at the level you are using Cidiscape (usually root-level).