Currently, for most “things” (e.g. news, links, FAQs), we have 3 levels of permissions: view, edit and delete. And you can grant each of these permissions individually. So you can do clever things, like say that an admin can delete links, but they can't view or edit them. Insert maniacal laugh here.

Taking links as an example, of the 8 possible combinations of view/edit/delete, only 2 really make sense. They are:

1. you can only view links
2. you can do anything with links—view, edit and delete them

For most “things”, even students are allowed to view them, so it doesn't really make sense to say that an admin would have less permissions than a student. So that leaves us with one permission that makes sense: “do anything” with links, and 2 possibilities: you either have it or you don't.

Starting with news and links, we're going to condense the permissions for each resource down to just 1, “edit”—which means “do anything” with this resource. So, Link.Edit or News.Edit. If you don't have, say, News.Edit, you can still see news in admin (and in the student console), but you can't write, edit or delete news. If you do have that permission, you can do anything related to news. 

We'll be fixing permissions for FAQs and Info Sheets (a.k.a. documents) too over the coming months.