User accounts can include full-time faculty, part-time (adjunct) faculty, professional staff who teach, and graduate students. In addition, accounts can be created for support staff.The basic difference between a faculty account and a support account is access to certain faculty data. As a result, a faculty account will have access to the users input profile data and activity data. On the other hand, a support account is intended for users who serve in a support role, such as a member of the Institutional Implementation Team, IT resources, administrative assistants, student workers, etc.

The following table shows the account type, employment status, and access rights. The employment status is used as a filter in the systems faculty selection tool.

Both faculty and support accounts can be configured to have one of the following levels of administrative access:

Administrative rights can be modified by unit based on the organizational structure of academic units within the institution. See Define Unit Administrative Access for more information.

For the administrative rights assigned to an organizational unit, three levels of access exist:

• No Access Granted
• Allow Access Only
• Allow Access & Allow to Grant Access - Allows the user to assign access to other users who have been granted administrative access to sub-units under the current unit. For example, a dean of a college can assign rights to a department chair within that college.