Understanding Roles and Permissions

Every Elevate user has a role. The role decides what they can see and do — and, for school-based roles, which school they're limited to.

District-level roles

These roles work across the whole district:

• Tech admin — configure the district, manage schools and users, and view all observations and analytics. A school assignment is not required to start an observation; school-less tech admins choose a school for each one.
• District leader — create observations across schools, manage Cabinet, Principal, Assistant Principal, and Evaluator accounts, view all observations, and view district analytics. District leaders cannot manage tech admins, other district leaders, or their own account.
• Cabinet — district and school analytics only (no observation access or user management).

School-level roles

These roles are tied to a specific school:

• Principal — create observations, view all observations at their school, manage teachers, and view school analytics.
• Assistant principal — create and manage their own observations, view all observations at their school, manage teachers, and view school analytics. They cannot manage users or open another evaluator's finished summative.
• Evaluator — create and manage their own observations, and manage teachers.

At a glance

For the exact capability-by-role breakdown, see the Role permission matrix.

Note: Principals and assistant principals see observations across their whole school. Evaluators see only their own observations.

Changing a role

A tech admin can update users as responsibilities change. A district leader can update Cabinet, Principal, Assistant Principal, and Evaluator accounts, but cannot edit tech admins, other district leaders, or their own account. See Managing user accounts.