The Course Coordinator is the leader of the course. The Course Coordinator has access and is responsible for all content, grades, and student experience. The Course Coordinator can also add/remove users to/from the course and change their role, but not to the roles that originate from EMC (i.e. Course Coordinator, Course Administrator and Lecturer).

The Course Administrator can do all the administrative tasks and support the building of the course. The Course Administrator role has the same permissions as the Course Coordinator.

The Lecturer role has the same permissions as the Course Coordinator except they cannot add/remove users to/from the course. Users with the role of Lecturer or Examiner are added to Brightspace as Lecturer.

The Teaching Assistant role has the ability to build courses and support the teacher in the course. Same as the Lecturer role, this role does not have the ability to add/remove users to/from the course. 

The Student Assistant role is meant for students helping build courses and support the teacher in the course. Similar to the Teaching Assistant with the main difference that this role (as it is meant for persons still studying at WUR)  can only review handed-in assignment, but cannot publish feedback or grades, neither can access the grade book.

The Guest Lecturer has the same permissions as the Lecturer. The main difference is that guest lecturers do not have a role in Education Modification Cycle (EMC) and can be added manually by the Course Coordinator, Course Administrator or Chairgoup Edu Officer. The Guest Lecturer can be from within the WUR or external. If the Guest Lecturer is external a guest account needs to be created before this user can be added.

The Guest presenter is an external guest speaker who can only view course materials. This role cannot create or publish content in Brightspace, but only respond in the Discussion topics. The Guest Presenter is external and a guest account needs to be created before this user can be added. 

The Viewer role gives participants (other WUR staff or external users) a look into your course. However,  they cannot actively participate in the course nor able to view External Learning Tools (Multimedia, Knowledge Clips, and Virtual Classroom recordings)

The Chairgroup Edu Officer (with MS Teams) can do all the administrative tasks and support the building of the course, both in the Brightspace and the linked MS Teams (if that is created). This role has the same permissions as the Course Coordinator. This role can be given on request by the Brightspace Adminstrators only, after which this user is added automatically to all chairgroup courses. 

The Chairgroup Edu Officer (no MS Teams) can do all the administrative tasks and support the building of the course in Brightspace. This role has the same permissions as the Course Coordinator, with the exception that this user is not added to the MS Teams of this course (if that is created). This role can be given on request by the Brightspace Administrators only, after which this user is added automatically to all chairgroup courses. 

Educational Designers support Brightspace course coordinators and lecturers with the setup of their course.  This role can access all courses in the system, however is not visible in the classlist. This role can be given by the Brightspace Administrators only. 

Super viewer can only see content, has access to all courses, i.e. to review course on copy-right (by library). This role cannot participate and is not visible in the classlist. This role can be given by the Brightspace Administrators only. 

The Student role can access courses and participate actively as a student i.e. View published content, hand in assignments, take quizzes, view gradebook, etc. 

The Re-exam Student role has the same rights as the Student role. The only difference is that they will not be auto-enrolled in groups. 

The Pre-Student role has the same rights as the Student role. The only difference is that they cannot use the email tool to email other (pre-)students in the course. 

The Chairgroup Dummy Student role is created for a special purpose, described in the article: Test your course as a student: Test your course as a student: impersonate a dummy student. It is not a role intended  for real students! It is not allowed, due to GDPR requirements, to impersonate real student's accounts. Course Coordinators should only give the prepared Dummy chair group accounts mentioned in the article the Dummy Student role.