What happens when I give someone editing Permissions on a piece of content?

Find out about granting Permissions on a piece of content.

When creating or editing an Item, Learnlist or Channel, you'll notice that you have the option to grant extra Permissions to selected individuals. 

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As it says above, users with a role of owner, admin or curator can already edit this content. 

If you would like additional users (e.g. users with a role of Learner - or less commonly, HR) to have editing Permissions too, then you can select them.

Please note that you can choose multiple people to give Permissions to.

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What can these 'Editors' do? 

Learners who are given the Permissions to edit a piece of content will be able to do anything that an admin / owner / curator can do, except from adding more 'editors'.

Here is a Learner's view of content that they have been given Permission to edit: 

• When they go to ‘Manage Items’, they will be able to see only the items they have been given the Permission to edit. 

• They will be able to do all of the Advanced Settings (e.g. CPD points, enabling Q&A / Discussion / Reviews, notifications, etc.). 

• But they will not be able to give other people editing Permissions - as you can see below, that field has been taken away from the learner view.

What are some example use cases?

You can use this feature in a variety of different ways, but some examples might be:

• If you have a learner who is an expert on a certain topic matter, you may want to give them extra Permissions over the Item / Learnlist / Channel to do with this subject.

• If you have a learner who you may want to promote to a curator within the Platform, you could start giving them Permissions as a trial run to see how this goes.

• Admins / owners would like to devolve management of these pieces of content to a learner.

We hope this helps! Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any further questions and we'd be happy to help.