Course staff roles and permissions

There are three types of roles for an Open edX instance.

Course Staff (Instructor)

• Access to the Instructor Dashboard for that course only.
• Access to Studio for that course only.

Course Admin

• All permissions of Course Staff.
• Ability to manage personnel for that course only.

Sitewide Admin

• Access to Studio for all courses.
• Ability to create new courses.
• Ability to manage personnel in all courses.

Superuser

• Access to the entire Open edX instance and full instance management.