Transfer Workgroup Ownership

Creating a workgroup establishes your user role as the workgroup owner. As the owner, you are not able to remove yourself from a workgroup you own. Authoring also does not allow users to change their own user roles.

To navigate around these restrictions, you can transfer ownership to another user. This will also remove any actions that you previously had access to and prevent you from receiving any further ownership-related notifications.

Note that to remain in the group, you must add yourself to the member list before you relinquish ownership. If you do not add yourself to the member list prior to transferring ownership to another user, you will automatically be removed from the workgroup, and then you will need to ask an existing member to re-add you to the workgroup.

To transfer a workgroup to another user:

1. On the Dashboard tab, select My Workgroups. The Manage Workgroups window appears.

2. Select in the EDIT column beside the workgroup whose ownership you want to transfer. The Edit Workgroup window appears.

3. If the user you would like to assign ownership to is not already in selected workgroup, add them as described in steps 4–6 in Create Workgroups for Sharing Content.

4. Select Transfer Ownership. Select Assign beside the name of the user. A confirmation pop-up appears. Select OK to confirm the workgroup ownership transfer.