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To participate in an assessment, a user has to be either an assessment team member or an assessment admin in that assessment.

Let’s grant assessment admin permission for our example user “John Doe” in the root assessment “Company Inc.”, which was created by the user dev.

1. Navigate into an assessment by clicking its name.

Assessments view with the assessments list and summary cards for assessments, risks, and controls

2. Click Members.

3. Click the add assessment admins button (person icon with a plus sign) in the Assessment admins table.

Members view with assessment admins table and the 'Add assessment admins' button highlighted

4. Select the user(s) that should be granted assessment admin permissions for the assessment.

Add assessment admins modal with a user drop-down listing users such as Jill Smith, John Doe and Mike Myers

5. Click Save.

Members view showing John Doe added as an assessment admin with a success banner

John Doe is now an assessment admin of the root assessment “Company Inc.”.

We are now logged in with the user John Doe.

John Doe collaborates with his colleague Jane Doe. Let’s add Jane Doe as an assessment team member to the root assessment “Company Inc.” so she can participate in that assessment.

1. Click Create assessment team.

2. Type a name for the assessment team.

3. Select members for the assessment team. dev and John Doe are not available, as they are already assessment admins in this assessment.

Create assessment team modal with a team name and a members drop-down listing Jane Doe, Jill Smith and Mike Myers

4. Click Create.

Members view showing John Doe's Team created with Jane Doe as an assessment member

Now Jane Doe has access to the assessment “Company Inc.” as an assessment team member. She can edit the assessment content but cannot give other users access to the assessment.

Now that we have created an assessment team into the root assessment “Company Inc.”, let’s create a sub-assessment for it while inheriting the parent assessment members.

1. Navigate back to Assessments.

2. Click + Create assessment.

3. Select the parent assessment in the Parent assessment field.

4. Fill in the assessment details.

5. Enable the checkbox for inheriting members from the parent assessment (enabled by default).

Create assessment modal with the parent assessment selected and 'I want the same permissions for this assessment as the parent assessment has' checked

6. Click Create & open.

As the parent assessment and member inheritance were selected, the assessment admins and teams were inherited from the parent assessment “Company Inc.”.

Digital Marketing assessment overview showing inherited assessment admins and the John Doe's Team assessment team

1. Click the assessment team’s remove members button (person icon with a minus sign).

Members view with the 'Remove members' button highlighted on John Doe's Team

2. Select the member(s) from the assessment team.

Remove members modal for John Doe's Team with Jane Doe selectable

3. Click Save.

Jane Doe cannot access the assessment “Digital Marketing” anymore.

1. Click the assessment team’s add members button (person icon with a plus sign).

Members view with the 'Add members' button highlighted on John Doe's Team

2. Select the member(s).

Add members modal for John Doe's Team with Jane Doe and Mike Myers selectable

3. Click Save.

Now Jane Doe has access to the assessment “Digital Marketing” again.

1. Click the assessment team’s edit button (pencil icon).

Members view with the 'Edit' button highlighted on John Doe's Team

2. Change the assessment team name. In this example the assessment team name is simplified.

Edit assessment team modal with the name changed to John's Team

3. Click Save.

1. Click the assessment team’s delete button (trash can icon).

Members view with the 'Delete' button highlighted on John's Team

2. Confirm by clicking Delete.

Delete assessment team confirmation modal asking 'Are you sure?'

Now Jane Doe again does not have access to the assessment “Digital Marketing”.

1. Navigate back to Assessments.

2. Open the row actions menu (⋯) of the assessment and select Inherit parent assessment members.

Assessments list with the row actions menu open showing 'Inherit parent assessment members'

The dialog shows the users of the parent assessment and highlights the assessment admins and members that will be inherited by the target assessment.

Inherit members modal comparing the parent assessment Company Inc. with the target assessment Digital Marketing

3. Click Confirm.

Let’s see what happened to the members of the Digital Marketing assessment.

4. Open the assessment.

5. Click Members.

Members view of Digital Marketing showing the inherited John Doe's Team with Jane Doe

The assessment team “John Doe’s Team” was inherited from the parent assessment “Company Inc.”, and Jane Doe has access to the assessment “Digital Marketing” once more.