{"id":317,"date":"2010-02-05T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T08:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=317"},"modified":"2010-05-21T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T12:14:51","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-the-access-contribute-and-maintain-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2010\/02\/what-is-the-difference-between-the-access-contribute-and-maintain-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between the &#8221;access&#8221;, &#8221;contribute&#8221; and &#8221;maintain&#8221; roles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>maintain <\/em>and <em>contribute <\/em>roles are very similar.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>maintain <\/em>role is allowed to change tool permissions and add site participants and create new sites (so long as they are a member of an Administration Site) but otherwise the roles are almost identical. The <em>contribute <\/em>role is meant for <strong>staff <\/strong>members who are expected to author content, modify forum discussions, make announcements and the like but who are not actually site maintainers.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>access <\/em>role is for student-type access, if &#8216;students&#8217; are required to author content or moderate Forum discussions then the permissions for the access role should be modified in the tool itself.<\/p>\n<p>In general students should <strong>never <\/strong>be given the <em>contribute <\/em>role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The maintain and contribute roles are very similar. The maintain role is allowed to change tool permissions and add site participants and create new sites (so long as they are a member of an Administration Site) but otherwise the roles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2010\/02\/what-is-the-difference-between-the-access-contribute-and-maintain-roles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[385,378],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblearn","tag-roles","tag-site-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}