> ## Documentation Index
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# Designating Group Admins

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]
>
> 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.

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

## Group admin permissions

Every group admin has the general group admin permissions, which you can't turn off. The other four permissions are off by default, so a new group admin gets only the general permissions. This default is the same whether you assign the role from the user's profile, from the group's member list, or while creating a group.

To give a group admin more access, turn on individual permissions with **Set Permissions**, as described in [Customizing group admin permissions](#customizing-group-admin-permissions).

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

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

      <td>
        <ul>
          <li>Access only the **Groups** page within the **Users & Groups** tab.</li>
          <li>Add and remove members of the group.</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 **Managed Users** page in the **Users & Groups** tab.</li>
          <li>In the **Managed Users** 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 **Managed Users** 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 **Reports** 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

You can make a user a group admin from their user profile, from the group's member list, or while [creating a group](https://docs.box.com/en/box-admin-tools/managing-box-users-and-admins/groups/creating-and-managing-groups.md). In each case, the new group admin gets the same default permissions.

To appoint a group admin from the user's profile:

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, select the down arrow and select **Group Admin**.
6. Select **Save**.

To appoint a group admin from the group's member list:

1. Go to **Admin Console > Users and Groups**.
2. Select the **Groups** tab.
3. Select the name of the group.
4. In the **Members** section, select **Edit**.
5. In the **Access Level** column for the user, select their current access level 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]
>
> This feature is available only to Business Plus customers or above.

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. Select **Select Groups**.
6. Select the checkbox for the chosen group, then set the **Access Level** as **Member** (default) or **Group Admin**.
   * If you select **Group Admin**, you can select **Set Permissions** to turn each of the listed group admin permissions on or off.
7. Select **Save**.

In a group's member list, the **Access Level** column displays how many permissions are applied to each group admin, for example, **0 permissions applied**. Select it to open **Set Group Admin Permissions**.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Group admins can't change the permissions of other group admins.