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AOK Roles & Permissions

Create Org Leaders, Team Leaders, Org Admins, and Org Messengers in AOK

Updated over 2 months ago

Here, you can learn about the different permissions or roles within the AOK app.

Types of roles/ permissions and what they allow:

Permission Name

What they can see

What they can do

Organization Leader

Everything. All people, profiles, teams and messages and data in the organization.

Everything. Grant all permission levels, view and update all profile data, manage all teams, send messages to all teams, view all responses sent to any team, export any and all data in the organization

Organization Administrator

  • Messages sent to teams they belong

  • All user profiles

  • All teams in the organization

  • Invite new users

  • Remove, suspend, wipe users from the organization

  • Assign users to any team

  • Create, update, and delete teams

  • Update profile data for all users

  • Respond to messages sent to them through a team they belong

Organization Messenger

  • Messages sent to teams they belong

  • All Hands message response details

  • Bulletin Board for All Hands

  • Respond to messages sent to them in teams they belong

  • Send messages to the All Hands team

  • Upload files (for distribution to all hands, bulletin board)

  • Update Bulletin Board for all hands only + all the teams they lead

Team Leader

  • Messages sent to teams they belong

  • Messages & responses for teams they lead

  • Profile information for those who are part of a team they lead

  • See & update all messages and responses sent to a team they lead

  • See & update responses by people in their teams for all hands messages

  • See all messages sent to them for response

  • Send messages to teams they lead

  • Upload files

  • Update profile info for those in teams they lead

  • Add & remove users to their teams

  • Invite, remove, suspend, wipe AOK access from users in their teams.

Member

  • Messages sent to teams they belong

  • Their profile

  • Bulletin Boards for teams they are a member

  • They can answer messages sent to them

  • They can see and update their own profile

  • Access files sent to them previously in the app

How to see what permissions a specific member has:

All members can see a high-level note of permissions/roles an individual has on the people screen of the app.

As a Team Leader, you can see the details of any team leader-level permissions for those in the team(s) you lead. You can grant team leader level permissions to others.

As a Org Messenger, your access for profile information is the same as a member. Unless you are also a leader of a team, you can only see information in the people screen on the app or webpage.

As an Organization Admin, you can access profile information for all members of your organization and grant team-leader-level permissions.

As an Org Leader, you can access profile information for all members of your organization and update all roles and permissions, including granting Org Leader level permissions.

How to update role permissions for members:

*Only users who have registered for the app may become Team Leaders, Org Leader/ Admin/Messengers

As an Org Leader, Org Admin or Team Leader you may update member permissions by following these steps:

To make someone an Org Leader or Org Admin:

1) Under the People screen, search the individual you wish to edit/ update:

2) Once in their profile, click on the three dots next to their name

3) Choose to update their organization role.

4) Choose the role you wish to assign and click confirm.

To make someone a Team Leader:

The person must be in the Team, and you must have permissions either within the org or the team to grant access for team leadership.

1) Go to the teams section in the navigation bar

2) Search for the team you are creating a leader of

3) Click the three dots next to the name of the team

4) Choose manage members

5) Choose the person you wish to make Team Leader from the list (you may need to scroll to the bottom, choose "see all," then use the search function for large teams)

6) Click the three dots next to the persons name and choose Update Team Role.

7) Choose Team Leader and click confirm.

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