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Understanding Credentials and User Access

If you have edit access for a Course page, you can define the access users have to each group within the Course page, thus determining the activities the users can perform in each group. The combination of a user’s credentials and the specific group access you assign to the credential defines the permissions and actions the user has within the group.

Each user can have different access for every page, group, or hierarchy of pages within the site. The access defined for a user at a Public Feature page, Welcome page, or Course page level is inherited throughout all descendant pages of the site, unless overridden by a descendant page definition.

For example, if a user has download access at the site’s root Welcome page, the user automatically receives download access to the page’s descendants. If a user has more than one credential per page (users can have up to 100 credentials), iTunes U grants access to the page based on the highest level of access defined by all the user’s credentials. This means that if a user has download access to a page with one credential and Shared access to the page with another credential, the user automatically receives the higher-level Shared access to the page. Also, if your site administrator specified a Group Access Label for the credential, the user will have Shared access to every group within the page until it is overridden. If the site administrator did not specify a Group Access Label for the credential when defining access, you will not be able to assign group-level access for the credential for that user.

Note: If you have edit access for a Course page, and a Group Access Label was defined for your credential, you receive edit access for each group within the page, and iTunes U displays your credential and access as read-only in the Access pop-up menu. To change your group-level access, use the Course page’s Edit Access page. For details, consult your site administrator.

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