Education Management Security Groups

In addition to an Education feature area, every user needs to be linked to:

  • A user in Education Management

  • One or more security groups from Education Management

When you're creating a new user, you'll either link them to an existing user or create a new user.

The link between a user in an Education feature area and a user in Education Management (which includes Core) only exists in the back end to provide a successful user experience between Blackbaud solutions that share data. For example, you assign roles to the Connected Apps feature area. The data it uses is stored in Education Management. The back end link provides a way for the user to access Connected Apps with shared data from Education Management.

Education and Education Management share data, but do not share functionality. This prevents roles and security groups from overwriting each other and creating gaps in security.