Roles and Capabilities

Overview

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LifterLMS registers 4 user roles upon installation. Through the use of user roles, you can provide varying levels of access to your WordPress admin panel and the LMS content on your site.

In addition to user roles, LifterLMS utilizes a number of capabilities.

The default WordPress administrators are granted all LifterLMS capabilities so that your admins can do everything possible in LifterLMS automatically.

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Role: LMS Manager

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The LMS Manager can do everything in LifterLMS. This allows you to provide access to someone without making them an admin on your site.

Instructor

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Instructors can create, edit, and delete their own courses (sections, lessons, quizzes, and quiz questions) and memberships.

Instructors can also create new Instructor’s Assistants to help them manage their own courses.

Instructors cannot enroll or unenroll students.

Instructor's Assistant

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Instructor’s Assistants are similar to Instructors but they can be managed by their instructors and they can only edit courses their instructor has assigned them to. Editing a course will allow them to create and delete sections, lessons, quizzes, and quiz questions within that course but they may not create or delete courses themselves.

Student

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A student can only view content of courses and memberships their enrolled in and edit their own user profile information.

All user accounts created via LifterLMS registrations and checkouts are created as students. This role is, essentially, the WordPress core’s subscriber role.

Capabilities

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The LifterLMS core capabilities are:

manage_lifterlms: Allows a user to view and edit LifterLMS Settings
view_lifterlms_reports: Allows a user to view LifterLMS reporting for students in courses and memberships their own courses and memberships.
view_others_lifterlms_reports: Allows a user to view LifterLMS reporting for all courses and memberships.
enroll: Allows a user to enroll students into courses and memberships
unenroll: Allows a user to unenroll students from courses and memberships

Roles and Capabilities Table

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A table containing all the capabilities available to these LifterLMS roles.

Role	manage_lifterlms	view_lifterlms_reports	view_others_lifterlms_reports	enroll	unenroll	read	read_course	read_private_courses	edit_course	edit_courses	edit_others_courses	edit_private_courses	edit_published_courses	publish_courses	delete_course	delete_courses	delete_private_courses	delete_published_courses	delete_others_courses	create_courses	read_lesson	read_private_lessons	edit_lesson	edit_lessons	edit_others_lessons	edit_private_lessons	edit_published_lessons	publish_lessons	delete_lesson	delete_lessons	delete_private_lessons	delete_published_lessons	delete_others_lessons	create_lessons	read_quiz	read_private_quizzes	edit_quiz	edit_quizzes	edit_others_quizzes	edit_private_quizzes	edit_published_quizzes	publish_quizzes	delete_quiz	delete_quizzes	delete_private_quizzes	delete_published_quizzes	delete_others_quizzes	create_quizzes	read_question	read_private_questions	edit_question	edit_questions	edit_others_questions	edit_private_questions	edit_published_questions	publish_questions	delete_question	delete_questions	delete_private_questions	delete_published_questions	delete_others_questions	create_questions	read_membership	read_private_memberships	edit_membership	edit_memberships	edit_others_memberships	edit_private_memberships	edit_published_memberships	publish_memberships	delete_membership	delete_memberships	delete_private_memberships	delete_published_memberships	delete_others_memberships	create_memberships	manage_course_cats	edit_course_cats	delete_course_cats	assign_course_cats	manage_course_difficulties	edit_course_difficulties	delete_course_difficulties	assign_course_difficulties	manage_course_tags	edit_course_tags	delete_course_tags	assign_course_tags	manage_course_tracks	edit_course_tracks	delete_course_tracks	assign_course_tracks	manage_membership_cats	edit_membership_cats	delete_membership_cats	assign_membership_cats	manage_membership_tags	edit_membership_tags	delete_membership_tags	assign_membership_tags
Administrator	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
LMS Manager	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Instructor	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes
Instructor’s Assistant	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes
Student	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no

Customizing Roles and Capabilities

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If you wish to modify roles and capabilities, use a third-party plugin such as Capability Manager Enhanced.