Enroll Group should set appropriate "Employee Types" for group owners

The regular process of adding a coach, teacher, or advisor to a group allows you to also make that person an employee type of "Coach", "Teacher", or "Advisor", but the Enroll Group feature doesn't do this automatically.  The new(er) group permissions require that owners of groups also be of that employment type (e.g. every Advisor in the group must also have the "Advisor" role int he system or they can't see the group content) so this creates an inconsistency that can be hard to track down.  Enroll Group should set these employment types automatically for owners that are added into groups.

  • David Gillespie
  • Feb 14 2016
Blackbaud Student Information System / Schedule
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  • Jim Robb commented
    March 28, 2020 13:53

    David,

    I just ran across this with an Advisor who did not have an Advisor role. Even if this process is not "Automatic" as you suggest, at least there should be some kind of Flag or warning that the person you are assigning the "role" does not in fact actually have the Role. I discovered this as I was demonstrating to a group that the Advisor should be able to view their advisee's Online Course Requests. I confidently impersonated a random Advisor and there were no Online Course Requests displaying. I hunted for a setting that I might have forgotten to enable, but could not find anything. Only after contacting Support did this inconsistency come to light. For instance, a Teacher must have an actual Teacher role to be added to a class.

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