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title: "Users, Roles & Teams"
description: "Understand how users, roles, permissions and teams fit together in Blend-ed, and where to manage each of them in the Users area."
source: "https://docs.blend-ed.com/product/users-roles-and-teams/"
---

# Users, Roles & Teams

**Who this is for:** Super Admins, Admins, and Staff with the User Management permission

Everyone who uses your Blend-ed platform sits in one place: the **Users** area. This article explains how users, roles, permissions, and teams fit together, so the rest of this section makes sense.

## The three ideas
**A role** is what someone fundamentally is. Every user has exactly one, and it decides which parts of Blend-ed they can reach at all.

| **Role** | **What it means** |
| --- | --- |
| **Super Admin** | Full control of the organisation, including other admins |
| **Admin** | Full control over users, courses, and organisation settings |
| **Staff** | Works on the platform, with access controlled by individual permissions |
| **Learner** | Takes courses |

**Permissions** apply to Staff only. A staff member with no permissions can sign in but cannot do anything. One with all of them works like an Admin. This is what lets you give a course author the ability to build courses without also giving them access to billing.

**Teams** are groups of users. Enrol a whole team in a course in one action instead of learner by learner, and nest teams under a parent team to mirror how your organisation is actually structured.

**Tip:** Role decides what someone *is*. Permissions decide what a staff member *can do*. Teams decide *who gets what*. Most access confusion comes from mixing up the first two.

## Where everything lives
Under **Users** in the left navigation:

| **Tab** | **What it holds** |
| --- | --- |
| **All** | Every user, with role, status, and join date |
| **Staff** | Staff members and their individual permissions |
| **Learners** | Learners with enrolment and completion figures, plus per-learner analytics |
| **Teams** | Teams, their members, and the content assigned to them |

![General overview: Users, roles and teams screenshot 1](/_astro/image.DauHKOQt_14nrKi.webp)

The **All** page also shows four counters at the top: Total Users, Admins & Staffs, Learners, and Teams.

## A note on course-level roles
Platform roles are separate from course team roles. Someone can be a platform Admin without being on a particular course’s team. To give someone access to one specific course, see [Managing Your Course Team & Learner Communication](/product/course-creation/managing-your-course-team-and-learner-communication/).

## Related articles
- [How to invite a user via email](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-invite-a-user-via-email/)
- [General overview: Staff permissions](/product/users-roles-and-teams/general-overview-staff-permissions/)
- [How to create a team](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-create-a-team/)

## Articles in this section
- [How to invite a user via email](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-invite-a-user-via-email/)
- [How to bulk import users with a CSV file](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-bulk-import-users-with-a-csv-file/)
- [How to find and filter users](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-find-and-filter-users/)
- [How to assign or change a user’s role](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-assign-or-change-a-user-s-role/)
- [How to reset a user’s password](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-reset-a-user-s-password/)
- [How to block or unblock a user](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-block-or-unblock-a-user/)
- [How to export your user list](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-export-your-user-list/)
- [General overview: Staff permissions](/product/users-roles-and-teams/general-overview-staff-permissions/)
- [How to edit a staff member’s permissions](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-edit-a-staff-member-s-permissions/)
- [How to clear a staff member’s permissions](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-clear-a-staff-member-s-permissions/)
- [How to create a course author role](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-create-a-course-author-role/)
- [How to create a reporting role](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-create-a-reporting-role/)
- [How to create an enrolment manager role](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-create-an-enrolment-manager-role/)
- [Staff support guide](/product/users-roles-and-teams/staff-support-guide/)
- [How to view a learner’s progress and analytics](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-view-a-learner-s-progress-and-analytics/)
- [How to view a learner’s skill passport](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-view-a-learner-s-skill-passport/)
- [How to create a team](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-create-a-team/)
- [How to add and remove team members](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-add-and-remove-team-members/)
- [How to organise teams with parent teams](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-organise-teams-with-parent-teams/)
- [How to enrol a whole team in a course or program](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-enrol-a-whole-team-in-a-course-or-program/)
- [How to assign competencies to a team](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-assign-competencies-to-a-team/)
- [How to edit or delete a team](/product/users-roles-and-teams/how-to-edit-or-delete-a-team/)