Definition and Permissions
In Planning & Self-Study, each Organization in your hierarchy can have multiple Leads assigned to it. Assigning someone as a Lead designates that individual as someone responsible for managing assessment and planning data related to that Organization. A Lead has access to view and edit the following content for an Organization:
- Mission Statement
- Outcomes
- Curriculum Maps (only available for Program-type Organizations)
- Cyclical Assessment Plans (Measures, Findings, Actions, etc.)
- Program Reviews
- Alignment to Strategic Plan Goals
Users with the Contributor role (see above for details) must be assigned as a Lead to at least one Organization in order to enter data in Planning & Self-Study. Users with the Administrator role (see above for details) do not have to be assigned as a Lead in order to access and edit content for an Organization, although assigning an Administrator as a Lead has the benefit of identifying them as someone responsible for managing that Organization’s assessment and planning data.
An Organization can have up to 20 Leads assigned to it, and one user can be assigned as a Lead to multiple Organizations.
How to Assign Leads
A user with the Administrator role can assign users as Leads by first clicking the Organization Management tab in their administrative navigation bar on the left of the screen.
This will display all Organizations that the Administrator has access to.
To assign a user as a Lead to an Organization, click the Assign Leads link to the right of that Organization name. If that Organization already has one or more Leads assigned to it, you will see a list of the individuals who have already been assigned as Leads, and you can click on one of their names instead.
This will open a window which allows you to search through your institution’s users. To assign a user as a Lead to your selected Organization, click on their name from the list of users. You can also remove a user as a Lead from an Organization by clicking the X to the right of their name from the box with your Organization Leads.
When a Lead logs in to their account, they will see a My Leadership category on their home page which lists all of the Organizations to which they have been assigned as a Lead, with links to add and edit assessment and planning data for those Organizations.
Please note that assigning a Lead to an Organization in your hierarchy does not confer full access to all Organizations nested within it in your hierarchy. For example, if you assign a user as a Lead to a Department, that user will not automatically have full access to all Programs within that Department; you would need to also assign that user as a Lead to each of those Departments to give them that level of access.
Dean’s View
Although a user who is assigned as a Lead to an Organization does not automatically have full editing access to all Organizations nested within it in your hierarchy, that user does have access to run reports on Plans for all Organizations within it. For example, someone who is assigned as a Lead to a College-type Organizations will be able to run reports on Assessment Plans completed by all Departments and Programs within that College, without also having to be added as a Lead to each individual Department and Program within it. This level of access is referred to as the Dean’s View.
To give a user access to the Dean’s View, that user needs to have the Contributor role (see above for details), and then they must be assigned as a Lead to an Organization that has other Organizations nested within it (examples include Division, College, or Department). We advise giving users who need this level of reporting access the Dean’s View instead of giving them the Administrator role, since Dean’s View does not allow them the level of editing access that an Administrator has, thus preventing potential permanent and irreversible mistakes.
The user in the following screen shot has the Dean’s View for their College:
When that user logs into their account, they will see their assigned College listed in their My Leadership area, and to run reports on all Organizations within that College, that user must first click on an Assessment Plan they want to report on:
On the following page, they will click the Insights tab in their top navigation bar, which will let them see Plan data for all Organizations within their assigned Organization.
