User rights and roles

In Stud.IP, users have different levels of access depending on the user role attached to their profile. This is to ensure that content hosted on Stud.IP is managed in a controlled way.

User interface inconsistencies

Even if you have set your language to English in Stud.IP, you will still encounter German phrases in some parts of the user interface. Please be aware that lecturer, dozent and leitung are sometimes used interchangeably in the user interface.

User roles

Title	Typical users	Comment
Autor	Students	All users have this user role to begin with.
Tutor	Tutors	People with Dozent level access can request Tutor level access rights to be given to nominated Stud.IP users. This is achieved in the Tools > Dozentrechte area. Users cannot request this level of access for themselves.
Dozent	Lecturers, staff of academic chairs, student helpers, and others who need to manage courses.	People with Dozent level access can request Dozent level access rights to be given to nominated Stud.IP users. This is achieved in the Tools > Dozentrechte area. Users cannot request this level of access for themselves.

Title

Typical users

Comment

Autor

Students

All users have this user role to begin with.

Tutor

Tutors

People with Dozent level access can request Tutor level access rights to be given to nominated Stud.IP users. This is achieved in the Tools > Dozentrechte area.

Users cannot request this level of access for themselves.

Dozent

Lecturers, staff of academic chairs, student helpers, and others who need to manage courses.

People with Dozent level access can request Dozent level access rights to be given to nominated Stud.IP users. This is achieved in the Tools > Dozentrechte area.

Users cannot request this level of access for themselves.

What access rights are associated with the user roles?

Title	User permissions
Autor	Registering for a course Writing and deleting contributions within courses Composing and receiving messages Use of the Community area of Stud.IP Editing one's own profile Use of the timetable, calendar and assessment calendar functionalities.
Tutor	Deleting other people's contributions within a course Allocating roles within a course
Dozent	Deleting other people's contributions within a course Allocating roles within a course Creating a course in Stud.IP Creating course content for one's own courses in Stud.IP

User access rights increase with each role. Someone with Dozent level access also has all the rights associated with Autor level access.

User access rights within a Stud.IP course

Lecturers and those who have dozent level access to a specific course can allocate roles to the participants of that course. This is done in the Participants section of the course.

Participant type	User access rights
Preliminary participant	None (until confirmed as participant by a user with dozent level access).
Reader	Read-only access to course content
Member	Autor / student access: these users can create content and delete their own contributions.
Tutors	These users can delete content that was produced by others.
Dozent / Leitung / Lecturer	Course administration: these users can add members / participants, change user roles of each participant, and create new courses.

People with dozent access can remove participants from their courses. However, users can re-register for the courses unless some restrictions were implemented in the access permissions settings of the course.