User roles

Updated 2 months ago by Julia Carnes

If you have an individual Padlet account, there's just one user: you! But if you are part of a team or school account, you will be assigned a user role.

Read on to learn more about the different Padlet user roles.

Team

Teams have four roles: owner, admin, maker, and contributor. You must purchase a license for each owner, admin, and maker. Contributors are included for free. Here's a breakdown of each role.

Feature

Contributor

Maker

Admin

Owner

Delete team

✅

Manage billing

✅

Manage users

✅

✅

Create team padlets

✅

✅

✅

Post on team padlets

✅

✅

✅

✅

View team padlets

✅

✅

✅

✅

If you have a paid Team Gold plan and you add more admins and makers to your account, you will be billed automatically for the additional users.

Backpack

Backpack is our account for schools, and it includes four roles: owner,admin, teacher, and student. You must purchase a license for each owner, admin and teacher. Students are included for free. Here's a breakdown of each role.

The student column refers to licensed students in your Backpack account. If your students do not have licenses, they can still view and post on Backpack padlets, but their posts will be anonymous. They will also not be able to create Backpack padlets.

Feature

Student

Teacher

Admin

Owner

Access account analytics

✅

✅

Manage account settings

✅

✅

Manage billing

✅

Manage users

✅*

✅

✅

Create Backpack padlets

✅*

✅*

✅

✅

Post on Backpack padlets

✅

✅

✅

✅

View Backpack padlets

✅

✅

✅

✅

*These features are available by default, but the account owner can set permissions for these roles that would remove access to these features.

FAQs

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