The five roles you can assign users on a blog are: Administrator; Editor; Author; Contributor; and Subscriber.

Deciding which role to assign student bloggers is a balance between:

1. How much responsibility you’re comfortable with assigning your students
2. School and District guidelines
3. Providing them with an environment that’s motivating

You also need to consider carefully what role you assign other users since Administrators are able to remove other users, including you, and editors can delete content.

The five roles a user can be assigned in decreasing level of responsibility are:

1. Administrator – can do everything including complete power over posts, pages, plugins, comments, choice of themes, imports, settings, assign user roles and are even able to delete the blog.
2. Editor – is able to publish posts/pages, manage posts/pages, upload files, moderate comments as well as manage other people’s posts/pages.
3. Author – can upload files plus write and publish own posts.
4. Contributor – can write own posts/pages but can’t publish them; instead they are submitted for review.  An administrator or editor then reviews and publishes their posts/pages.
5. Subscriber – can read comments and write comments.

Here is a summary of their differences based on User Capability:

Here is a summary of their differences based on access to features in the dashboard:

See Also:

• Changing The Role of A User on A Blog