The CMS gives you the freedom to create custom roles which have their own unique set of permissions. This is fantastic for enabling teachers to access and manage their class pages.  You could also create a role for governors giving them access to a secure content area.

To create a new role:

1. Select User Manager from the Home tab:
   
2. Select Create New Role from the Common Tasks column:
   
3. Enter the details for the role (required fields are marked with an asterisk):
   
4. Select Choose Permissions to open the permissions window:
   
5. Work through the various permission sets, granting the required permissions to the new role. New roles, by default, will have View Only access.  This will mean that users associated with that role, will not be able to update content on your website. To change the Permission Sets:
   1. Locate and select the required feature in the Permissions Set (left) column, for example, Page:
      
   2. Set each permission to Allow or Deny, depending on what access you wish this role to have:
      Not Set is the same as Deny but it is automatically selected by default. 
6. Select Add Role to save your new role to the User Manager:
   

After you have created a custom role, you can allocate it to a page,  or set the page to require login to create a secure page.

When setting the permissions for File Manager, the Constrain to user folder permission is set to ALLOW by default.  Users within this role can't access all the website folders. This includes, for example, the folder used to update slideshow images. The user will be constrained to using only their personal folders. If you want to grant users within a role access to all folders, set Constrain to user folder as DENY or NOT SET:

Updated 23 January 2025 15:57