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Most tools give one person every button and everybody else none, so the only way to let somebody help is to hand them the whole workspace. Cove uses departments instead: a named set of permissions, with people in it.
Settings → Departments

Departments, with what each can do and who is in it.

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Making one

Settings → Departments.
1

Name it and pick an icon

Moderation, Session Hosts, HR — whatever your group already calls it. Fourteen icons to choose from.
2

Tick what it can do

Sixteen permissions across the workspace. Somebody who runs trainings gets Create sessions and nothing else.
3

Put people in it

By hand, or by Roblox rank — see below.
Somebody’s permissions are everything their departments give them, added together. Being in three departments means holding all three sets.

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Assigning by rank

A department can carry a Roblox group rank. Anybody who joins the workspace at that rank is put into the department automatically, the moment they arrive. People added by a rank rule are marked differently from people you added yourself — an assignment somebody made is a decision, and one a rule made is a consequence.
Point a department’s rank at one of the ranks you chose to track when you created the workspace. New staff then land with the right permissions already, without anybody filing them by hand.

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The full list

Two are marked Powerful in the interface, because they can be used to obtain the rest: Manage departments and Change moderation settings. They aren’t treated differently — you are just told, so granting one is a decision rather than a discovery.

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Owners and co-owners

The workspace owner and any co-owners sit outside the department system and always hold every permission. That is what makes it safe to delegate Manage departments at all: no arrangement of departments can leave a workspace with nobody able to fix it. Billing is the one thing no permission grants — see Plans and billing for why.

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Before you have any

Until you make a department, only you and your co-owners can change anything. Everybody else can see their own activity, their own leave, and the pages open to the whole team, and nothing more.

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Permissions