Illuminate has defined 3 additive roles (a user can have more than one):

• Viewer: provides read permission for reports, whether preconfigured or custom if any, as well as access to Data Q&A to obtain metrics, charts, and tables through prompts (if this functionality is enabled).
• Developer (Admin): provides Viewer permissions, and also allows access to the Settings menu for account administration and to Snowflake to run queries.
• Author: only available for Illuminate Enhanced (the paid version), allows creating and managing custom reports. It is recommended that authors also have the developer role.

Blackboard offers a detailed report on how to configure role-based access. To properly manage role-based access, the administrator can work with two access restrictions:

• Report permissions. Regulate access to the reporting areas: Learning, Teaching, and Leadership.
• Data permissions. Control access to data depending on the institutional hierarchy: unrestricted data (access to all institutional data) or restricted data to allow access only to certain hierarchy nodes defined in Blackboard.

To configure the permissions, you must access the Illuminate Developer, select Settings, find the user you want to modify, and edit by clicking on the pencil icon that appears to their right. Keep in mind that one or more permissions can be assigned to a user, and that permissions are also additive. Remember to save the changes!