Overview of End User Roles

Digication provides three end user roles: Student, Faculty and Administrator. Roles are defined at a system level (typically via import or through account creation via SSO and/or LMS integration).

The following provides an overview of the functionality available to end users depending on their role.

Student Role:

• Create and edit ePortfolios (from scratch or from a template)
• Share their ePortfolios with different users, courses and/or the public
• Submit ePortfolios to Courses or Assessment Groups in which they are enrolled
• View assessments of their submissions (if faculty member has allowed students to view)
• Reply to Discussions
• View, comment. assess others ePortfolios (according to the ePortfolio permissions)/Peer Review

Note: For TAs, a student may be given a faculty role within a specific course or assessment group to manage a course alongside a faculty member.

Faculty Role:

• Create and edit ePortfolios
• Share their ePortfolios with different users, courses and/or the public
• Submit ePortfolios to Courses or Assessment Groups they are enrolled in
• Create Courses, Communities and Assessment Groups
• Add or Delete students and faculty access in their Courses, Communities and Assessment Groups
• Map Courses, Communities and Assessment Groups to Learning Outcomes/Standards
• Create ePortfolio Assignments (w/learning outcomes as needed)
• View student progress on assignments
• Create Rubrics (Teacher and Self Rubrics only)
• View and assess student work using rubrics and/or written feedback
• Create and Reply to Discussions
• Export Course level assessment reports

Admin Role (Admins can do everything faculty can do plus manage the overall system):

• Create and edit ePortfolios
• Share their ePortfolios with different users, courses and/or the public
• Submit ePortfolios to Courses or Assessment Groups they are enrolled in
• Create Courses, Communities and Assessment Groups
• Add or Delete students and faculty access in their Courses, Communities and Assessment Groups
• Map Courses, Communities and Assessment Groups to Learning Outcomes/Standards
• Create ePortfolio Assignments (w/learning outcomes as needed)
• View student progress on ePortfolio assignments
• Create Rubrics (Teacher and Self Rubrics only)
• View and assess student work using rubrics and/or written feedback
• Create and Reply to Discussions
• Export Course level assessment reports

Admin only features in the Administration area: 

• Manage system settings (user profile options, system branding) 
• Manage user accounts and user groups (creating and updating, typically via import or eventual integration with SIS) 
• Manage courses (settings and enrollment and batch add of assignments and ePortfolios) 
• Manage ePortfolios (access to all ePortfolios in system, adding system templates, adding themes, featuring ePortfolios, creating ePortfolio categories and suggested tags)
• Manage standards (adding standards/learning outcomes and associated rubrics) 
• Run Imports (user, course, registration and group imports via .csv upload)
• Access statistics data about system usage 
• Create and run assessment reports (reports may include data from multiple courses and assessment groups) 
• Export ePortfolio assignment submissions data 
• Facilitate setup of assessment for program and institution assessment with assessment committees

• Admin can edit e-Portfolio settings, add / remove users, edit, and publish e-Portfolio.
• Publisher can edit and publish e-Portfolio.
• Editor can edit but not publish e-Portfolio.
• Viewer can view e-Portfolio.