---
title: "Adding a New Role"
slug: "adding-a-new-role"
description: "How to create a new role in infoodle via the administration cog → Roles → Add, entering a name and purpose, then ticking permission checkboxes. With video."
tags: ["Access", "Permissions", "Setup", "Configuration", "Administrator", "Roles", "Login"]
updated: 2026-10-17T04:37:57Z
published: 2026-10-17T04:37:57Z
canonical: "help.infoodle.com/adding-a-new-role"
---

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# Adding a New Role

### How to add a new role

[Video](https://cdn.document360.io/d198920d-a212-4177-85f9-e1abc92e7ab3/Images/Documentation/HowToAddANewRole.mp4)

1. Click on the **administration cog icon**
2. Click on **roles**
3. Finally click **add**

Then you can enter in the name of the role and the purpose so that you, and any other staff (present and future) will know the intent of this role's permissions.

The **next step** is choosing the **Role Permissions** by ticking the appropriate **checkboxes**.

              Next steps:

              

[About role permissions](/v1/docs/role-information-details){target=`_blank`} [Testing new role permissions](/v1/docs/testing-roles) [Assigning roles](/v1/docs/assigning-a-user-a-role-login) [Sending logins](/v1/docs/sending-logins)

## Related

- [Adding a Person](/adding-a-person.md)
- [Assigning a User a Role & Login](/assigning-a-user-a-role.md)
- [People Permissions](/people-permissions.md)