3. User Groups

Each site has two basic user groups: Owners and Members.

• Owners have the Full Control permission of the site. Usually the staff who's in charge of maintaining the site should be in the Owners group. The Owners group should also be the owner of the other site groups so they can manage the membership of those groups.
• Members have the Contribute permission. All the faculty/staff/administrators of a department/college/office/committee should be in the Members group of their corresponding site.

In addition to the basic groups, there are also groups created for the parties involved in the curriculum review process, e.g. <College> Associate Dean, <College> Other Associate Deans, and so on. These groups do not have specific site permissions because the members of these groups should all have proper permissions from their basic site groups.

University Groups

• UNIV Admin: this group has Full Control of the site collection. This group can manage the membership of other university groups for offices and committees that don't have their own dedicated staff.
• Office of Undergraduate Studies
  • UNIV UGS
  • UNIV UGS Owners
  • UNIV UGS Members
• Educational Policy Committee
  • UNIV EPC
  • UNIV EPC Owners
  • UNIV EPC Members

Each college has the following user groups:

• <College> Owners
• <College> Members
• <College> Associate Dean
• <College> Other Associate Deans: this group is used in the feedback collection stage of the curriculum proposal review.
• <College> IAC

Each department has the following user groups:

• <College> <Department> Owners
• <College> <Department> Members
• <College> <Department> Chair
• <College> <Department> IAC

3.1 Manage Group Membership

A University Administrator (i.e. anyone in the UNIV Admin group) can access the list of all the groups at https://sinestro:48000/_layouts/groups.aspx. To manage the membership of a group, simply click on the group name, then use the New or Actions menu to add users to or remove users from the group.

The administrator of a college, department, office, or committee (i.e. anyone in the Owners group of the corresponding site) can see the groups they can manage by clicking on the User Groups link on the Quick Launch bar of their site. For example:

Then simply click on a group to manage the membership of the group.