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What Permissions Do Hosts and Moderators Have?

There are two types of administrators in your Mighty Network: Hosts and moderators.

When you upgrade to The Community Plan, The Business Plan, or Mighty Pro, you can add an unlimited number of Hosts and moderators. This is in contrast to other platforms that charge you on a per-admin basis!

Here’s how the permissions for each role breaks down.

Network Hosts

Network Hosts have full access to everything in Network Settings, including the ability to:
  • Create and edit Collections
  • Create Spaces
  • Reorder Spaces within the Collection
  • Change all branding and design options at the Network level (including the Landing Page)
  • Turn on and off and manage all Premium Features within Network Settings: External links, Custom Navigation Links, Integrations, the Welcome and Featured Sections, Member Categories, Icebreaker Question and Ambassador Program.
  • See and approve or decline requests to join in a Mighty Network.
  • Welcome new members
  • Notify all members when adding a new post or using the Message All Members feature
  • See the member emails in the member list.
  • Send Network Invites, upload CSV, import contacts, invite members
  • View Sent Invites, send other people's invite reminders, revoke other people's invites. They cannot see the email addresses of invites they didn't send.
  • Access all payments features, including managing the Stripe connection and seeing Income Reports
  • Receive notifications when content is flagged
  • Download a full member export (if your Mighty Network is on The Business Plan or above)
  • View all dashboards on Mighty Insights
  • Manage the form of payment you have for the Network for your plan with Mighty Networks (Business, Community etc…)
  • Remove or ban members, including fellow Network moderators
  • Upgrade or downgrade the Mighty Network
  • Delete the Mighty Network
In order to have access to management options at the Space level, they will also need to be a Space Host.

Network moderators

Network moderators are a more limited role focused on moderating members, content, and features.
These are the actions a Network moderator can take:
  • Create and edit Collections
  • Create Spaces
  • Reorder Spaces within the Collection
  • Message All Members feature
  • Remove or ban members, including fellow Network moderators (but not Network Hosts,
    or members who joined through a Plan).
  • Turn on and off and manage all Premium Features within Network Settings: External links, Custom Navigation Links, Integrations, the Welcome and Featured Sections, Member Categories, Icebreaker Question and Ambassador Program.
  • See and approve or decline requests to join in a Mighty Network.
  • Can view all dashboards on Mighty Insights except the Plans dashboard that reports revenue.
  • Send Network Invites, upload CSV, import contacts, invite members
  • View Sent Invites, see all sent invites (but with email addresses blocked out for invites they didn't send), send other people's invite reminders, revoke other people's invites.
  • Welcome new members
A Network moderator cannot…
  • Access the Mighty Checklist or General Settings
  • Remove members from a plan.
  • Access or manage payments features, including managing the Stripe connection and seeing Income Reports
  • View or manage the Mighty Network plan or billing data
  • Download the member list
  • Toggle on or off content types like Articles, Questions & Polls, etc.
  • Change member roles
  • View the Plans Dashboard on Mighty Insights
  • See email addresses of invites they didn't send.
  • Go Live in the Mighty Network
  • Upgrade or downgrade the Mighty Network
  • Edit, delete or moderate posts.
Network Hosts will always have any of the permissions that Network moderators have.
When you add moderators, you can recruit a team to welcome new members, contribute posts, invite and encourage members, and drive regularly scheduled Events in your community that will make it thrive.
If you want to change someone to a Network Host or Network moderator, you can do so in the Global Members list by selecting the three dot menu next to their name.
If you don’t have that feature enabled, then you can find the member in your Network Settings > Members > Member List > three dot menu next to their name.

Space Hosts and Space moderators

For each of these options, there can be an unlimited number of people designated in each role.
Here's a breakdown of what the different roles mean.

A Space Host controls everything about the Space.

They can:

  • Create, rename and reorder all Space features.
  • Move the Space to a different Collection
  • Create Quick Posts, Articles, Polls & Questions, and Events
  • Notify all members of new posts
  • Message All Members
  • See the member emails in the member list
  • Download the member list (if they are also a Network Host)
  • Access privacy settings, general settings in the Space.
  • Change all branding and design options
  • Access all payments features, including managing the plans and seeing all financial information from the Space
  • Fully moderate all the content and activity in the Space Activity Feed
  • Invite members to the Space, including uploading a CSV and importing contacts.
  • View sent invites for the Space, send other people's invite reminders, and revoke other people's invites.
  • Assign members as Space moderators or Hosts
  • Remove or ban members from the Space
  • Delete the Space

Space moderators have a slightly more limited role.

They can:

  • Create Quick Posts, Articles, Polls & Questions, and Events if these features are enabled for Hosts and moderators
  • Edit and delete comments and replies from other members
  • Invite members to the Space, including uploading a CSV and importing contacts.
  • View sent invites for the Space, send other people's invite reminders, and revoke other people's invites. They cannot see the email addresses of invites they didn't send.
  • Invite members as Space moderators but not as Space Hosts
  • Remove or ban members from the Space (but not Hosts)
  • Space moderators with Table of Contents feature enabled can view all hidden lessons and sections. As well as edit or change visibility of lessons and sections where they are an instructor.
They cannot:
  • Change members' roles in the Space
  • Access the Space Settings or Space Features for the Space
  • Download the Space member list
Note: To Schedule posts in a Space, you must be a Host/moderator at the Network level, not just at the Space level.
To make someone a Space Host or moderator, navigate to Space Members > search for their name > select the More Menu > Change Role > choose Space Host.
If you don’t have a members list enabled in a Space, you can find the members by going to the gear icon > Space Members > Member List and selecting the three dot menu from there.
If the Members tab is hidden, you can go to Manage > Space Members > Member List and select the three dot menu next to their name.
Inside of a Space with a Table of Contents, you can also have a Space Instructor.

Space Instructors

Space Instructors have the ability to edit individual Lessons. To assign someone to be an instructor of your Space, you need to first make them a Space moderator or Space Host (see above). Then, you can assign them to an individual Lesson. To do this, go to the Lesson you would like to assign to them > select the drop down arrow > choose Assign Instructor.

Once they are the Instructor of at least one Lesson, the Overview will show them as an Instructor.

Note that a Space Instructor will only be able to edit the Lessons they have been assigned. They will be able to populate the Lesson, make the Lesson visible, and turn comments on or off. If a Member comments on a Lesson, only the Space Instructor will receive a notification for the Lesson. Space Hosts that are not Instructors for a specific Lesson will not get these notifications.

The Instructors of a Section will reflect the Instructors of the Lessons that are inside of that Section. If all of the Lessons inside a Section have the same Instructor, the Section will only have one Instructor. If the Lessons inside a Section all have different Instructors, all of those Instructors will show up as the Instructors of that Section.

The same applies to Instructors of a Course. The Instructors of a Course will reflect anyone who is an Instructor of a Lesson inside of that Course.

Instructors are not able to edit the Overview or individual Sections within a Table of Contents feature. If you would like to give someone permission to edit —including the Overview and Sections—make them a Space Host by going to Space Members > search for their name > select the More Menu > Change Role > choose Space Host.

You can also customize the names of roles inside of Space and in your Network!
Updated January 2023

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