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# Designating Group Admins

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The Groups tool enables you to scale your account by granting blanket permission to a sub-set of your users. You can decide to designate key people to be **group admins** to help you manage and monitor these clusters of users.

A good group admin candidate is someone who needs oversight into a subset of users without needing to make changes to the account as a whole. Potential group admins are:

* Department Heads
* Team Leads/Project Managers
* HR Personnel
* Regional Leads

For example, if you have a group called “Marketing,” the head of the department would be a good choice for a group admin so they could manage the group’s folder access and monitor their activity.

<Note>
  **Note**

  A user cannot be both a group admin *and* the main admin or co-admin of your Box account. If a group admin is elevated to the main admin/co-admin, they will lose the status of group admin.
</Note>

Designate a user as a group admin if they need to manage only a subset of your users.

<h2 id="group-admin-permissions">
  Group admin permissions
</h2>

By default, group admins have all of the below permissions enabled. Each of these can be individually toggled by selecting **Set Permissions**, as detailed in Customizing group admin permissions.

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th><strong>Permission Type</strong></th>
      <th><strong>Permissions Given</strong></th>
    </tr>
  </thead>

  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>General group admin permissions</td>

      <td>
        <ul>
          <li>Access only the <strong>Groups</strong> page within the <strong>Users & Groups</strong> tab.</li>
          <li>Add and remove folders for the group.</li>
          <li>Change folder permissions for the group.</li>
        </ul>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Create new user accounts</td>

      <td>
        <ul>
          <li>Access only the <strong>Managed Users</strong> page in the <strong>Users & Groups</strong> tab.</li>
          <li>In the <strong>Managed Users</strong> tab, see only managed users who are members of the group.</li>
          <li>Add new managed users to the enterprise.</li>
          <li>Cannot edit user details for managed users.</li>
          <li>Cannot enable co-admin permissions.</li>
          <li>Cannot delete users.</li>
        </ul>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Manage group member accounts</td>

      <td>
        <ul>
          <li>Edit non-admin user accounts in the <strong>Managed Users</strong> tab, including user name, email, storage, and settings.</li>
          <li>Cannot edit admin or co-admin permissions.</li>
          <li>Cannot enable co-admin permissions.</li>
          <li>Cannot delete users.</li>
        </ul>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Run reports on group activity</td>

      <td>
        <ul>
          <li>Access the <strong>Reports</strong> tab.</li>
          <li>Access User Activity, User Statistics, Folders and Files, Collaborations, Outbound Collaboration, User Details, Disposition.</li>
          <li>Generate reports on activity for the group.</li>
          <li>Generate reports on activity for individual members of the group.</li>
          <li>Cannot access the Security Report.</li>
        </ul>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Instant login to group member accounts</td>

      <td>
        <ul>
          <li>Instant-login to the accounts of non-admin group members.</li>
        </ul>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

## Appointing group admins

1. Go to **Admin Console > Users and Groups**.
2. Select the **Managed Users** tab.
3. Select the user name of the user you want to designate as a group admin.
4. In the Groups section, select **Edit**.
5. In the Access Level column, click the down arrow and select **Group Admin**.
6. Select **Save**.

A group admin has a miniature version of the Admin Console that only affects the users inside their group. Log in as the primary admin to view and manage all the users in your enterprise.

## Customizing group admin permissions

<Note>
  **Note:** This feature is available only to Business Plus customers or above.
</Note>

1. Go to **Admin Console > Users and Groups**.
2. Select the **Managed Users** tab.
3. Select the user name of the user you want to designate as a group admin.
4. In the Groups section, select **Edit**.
5. Click **Select Groups**.
6. Click the checkbox for the chosen group, then set the **Access Level** as **Member** (default) or **Group Admin**.
   * If **Group Admin** is selected, you can click **Set Permissions** to toggle each of the listed Group admin permissions on or off. By default, these are toggled on for group admins.
7. Select **Save**.