Group basics

Adobe Connect provides a number of default groups for common roles such as administrators, hosts, event managers, and so on. Groups are essentially predefined roles associated with a set of predefined permissions. Admins can control what group members can do or access. For example, the predefined limited administrator group has permissions, but an admin can edit those at any time.  

Note the following:

• Users may or may not be assigned to a group. Admins manage group membership as needed.
• Groups may contain other groups (subgroups).
• Each default group has pre-defined permissions.
  
• Admins can add, edit, and remove custom groups at any time.
• There are default groups, but admins can create custom groups.

Create new groups

Create any number of new groups from the new group panel:

1. Select Admin > Users and groups > New group.
2. Enter a name and optional description.
3. If you want to add group members, choose Finish; otherwise, choose Next.
4. If you want to add group members, choose Finish; otherwise, choose Next.
   1. If the group members are not visible, search for users or groups.
   2. Highlight group members to add. Press the shift key to select multiple groups.
   3. Select Add.
5. Select Finish.

Edit group name and description

1. Select Admin > Users and groups.
2. Search for the desired group.
3. Highlight the group.
4. Select Info.
5. Edit the name and/or description.
6. Select Finish.

Edit group membership

1. Select Admin > Users and groups.
2. Search for the desired group.
3. Highlight the group.
4. Select the pencil icon.
5. If the group members are not visible, search for users or groups.
6. Highlight group members to add. Press the shift key to select multiple groups.
7. Select Add.

Note: To remove members, highlight member in the right panel and choose Remove.

Delete a group

1. Select Admin > Users and groups.
2. Search for the desired group.
3. Highlight one or more group.
4. Select the Delete icon or Delete button.

Note: You cannot delete primary (system-wide) groups.

On the confirmation screen, choose:

• Delete: Deleting a user or group disables related information in the database and removes the labels from the UI (the users and groups no longer appear in any list. However,  the data remains available for reporting purposes.
• Delete and de-identify: “De-identify” anonymizes the user/group data so that it can no longer be associated with any of the original people. For example, names are replaced with “zzzz-<random alpha-numeric string>”. This feature is useful for data protection and GPDR.

Roles and permissions in Adobe Connect

Permission to do just about anything in Adobe Connect is based on a user's role. Both individual users and groups can have multiple roles and belong to one or more other groups. To learn more about this complex topic, refer to the Adobe Connect User Guide.

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