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How do I create feature permission groups in the Impact Dashboard?

With Impact by Instructure, you can create custom feature permission groups based on the needs of your institution. Once you invite users to your dashboard, you can use feature permission groups to organize your user roles, institutional hierarchies, or sub-accounts.

Open Users and Permissions

Open Users and Permissions

In your Impact dashboard, click the Settings icon [1]. Then hover the cursor over the Users & Permissions menu [2] and click the Feature Permission link [3].

View Feature Permissions

View Feature Permissions

You can view all of your feature permission groups. Your Impact dashboard has some out-of-the-box groups such as Administrator and Support Manager but you can also create your own custom groups.

To create a feature permission group, click the Create Group button.

Create Permissions Group

Create Permissions Group

To create a custom feature permission group, enter a name [1] and select an owner [2].

You can switch between Campaigns, Messages, Support, Insights, and Settings permissions [3]. To customize the permissions more, you can select specific functions of the feature category.

Campaigns
View Campaigns
Create/Edit Campaigns

Messages
View Messages
Create/Edit Messages
View Messages Insights

Walkthroughs
View Walkthroughs
Create/Edit Walkthroughs
View Walkthroughs Insights

Support
Articles (View Articles, Create/Edit Articles, View Articles Insights, Arrange Articles)
Design
Routing
Access

Insights
User Activity
Tool Adoption
Course Activity
My Reports
Users vs Monitors
User Trend
Monitor Trend
Champions

Settings
Activity Monitors (View Activity Monitors, Create/Edit Activity Monitors)
Reporting Templates (View Reporting Templates, Create/Edit Reporting Templates)
Contexts (View Contexts, Create/Edit Contexts)
User Groups (View User Groups, Create/Edit User Groups)
LTI Tools (View LTI Tools, Create/Edit LTI Tools)
Custom User Groups (View Custom User Groups, Create/Edit Custom User Groups)
View/Edit Tool Categories
View System Status
Edit Team & Permissions

Once you have finished creating a feature permission group, click the Create Group button [4].

View Permission Group

View Permission Group

View your custom permission group with the configurations and access levels of the feature permissions group [1].

To see more details, click the arrow next to each feature [2].

View Permission Icons

View Permission Icons

The icons next to each category represent the access status.