Direct Manager is a new role that comes with additional functionality to assign Direct Manager and Direct Reports on all user cards. When assigning a Direct Manager to your users, a Direct Manager Team is automatically created. The team functionality is the same for regular teams as for Direct Manager Teams but in a Direct Manager Team, there's only one single Team Manager, which is the Direct Manager. The team will only consist of the Direct Manager's Direct Reports.
Here's a quick overview of how the features look in Learnster Studio in the User menu and on the User card:
List of all users with the Direct Manager Role.
Here you find all Direct Manager Teams.
Add role as Direct Manager directly to a user card
Assign a Direct Manager and view a list of a user's Direct Reports.
Direct Manager Role
As a super-admin, you're able to adjust the role permissions for your Direct Managers just as with all other roles. Check out more detailed role permissions settings here.
One of the permissions you can give your Direct Managers is to approve course enrollments requests from their Direct Reports. In your Course Settings, you can then choose if you want to notify the Direct Managers when their Direct Reports send an enrollment request.
Direct Manager Team
The team functionality is the same for regular teams as for Direct Manager Teams but in a Direct Manager Team, there's only one single Team Manager, which is the Direct Manager. The team will only consist of the Direct Manager's Direct Reports. So, if a user is added to the team they will also be assigned as Direct Reports, and vice versa.
