Managing user roles

Within a platform such as Adobe Learning Manager, authentication and authorization are the two fundamental aspects of user management. So far in this chapter, we have only focused on authentication. Authentication answers the question Who are you?

In this section, you will focus on the authorization aspect of user management. Authorization answers the question What can you do? Indeed, just because you can authenticate on a platform does not mean that you are allowed to use all its features. For example, learners cannot create courses, authors cannot delete users, and so on. Only the administrator is allowed to access every corner of the platform.

In Learning Manager, authorization is role-based. This means you need to create roles and define what each role can do on the platform. Then, you assign users to these roles.

There are five basic roles already defined in Adobe Learning Manager: Learner, Author, Instructor, Integration Admin, and Administrator....