Understanding Permissions

This guidance may help to understand how WAM's permission system works.

Workpackages and Groups

WAM works on a principal of peer group transparency. That is, that a group of staff working within a common set of rules and who know each other can have an enhanced experienced by understanding each other's work.

As a result, broadly speaking within WAM you will see the work of your peers, and not other colleagues working in other departments who may have somewhat different norms.

Your user will belong to one of more groups and this will dictate what you can see and interact with. If you cannot see something you should, you might ask your admin team if you are in the correct group.

A given group will often have packages of workload. The most common example of a package is the work of an individual academic school, for one academic year. Consequently, you will typically see "years" referred to in the user interface. You may wish to go back and forward in years to make comparisons or check other details.

Packages of work can span multiple groups, and this can be useful if you have sub-groups that require some consideration.

Enhanced permissions

WAM allows individual users to have individual permissions for many admin tasks within the system. You may also be added to a group that packages up a number of these permissions. If you don't have access to a feature that you should have, please speak to your admin team.

Please Note, that some features may allow you to inadvertantly damage or disrupt the work of others if used without training or understanding, and as a result, you may not be allocated some permissions without appropriate training.