TalentLMS is structured around three main user roles (i.e., Administrator, Instructor, and Learner) that provide the basis for the default (i.e., SuperAdmin, Admin-type, Trainer-type, and Learner-type) and custom User Types.

You can either use the user types to change a user’s main role across your portal or simply change a user’s role on a single course (i.e., between Learner and Instructor) depending on the permissions of their assigned user type.

A. Change a user’s main role across your portal

Each user is assigned to a single user type that can combine attributes from multiple roles (e.g., the Admin-type combines attributes from all three roles). To change a user’s combined role across your portal, you simply have to assign them a different user type.

Here’s how:

1. Sign in to your TalentLMS account as Administrator and go to Home > Users.
2. Click the user you want to modify (1).
3. From the User type drop-down list, choose their new user type (2).
4. Click Update user to save your settings.

B. Change a user’s role on a specific course

Users are assigned to courses as Learners or Instructors, based on their user type permissions and default role.
However, since a user type can combine attributes from both the Learner and Instructor roles, you can change the role a user has for a specific course.

Here is how to change between the two roles:

1. Sign in to your TalentLMS account as Administrator and go to Home > Users.
2. Open a user page and go to the Courses tab.
3. Pick a course and, in the Role column, click the Learner button and then, click Instructor (3).