Platform access level: Org Admins. The Users & roles page is part of Organization settings, which only Org Admins can open. Managers look after the teammates on their own team from Team settings instead.
Every user in your Arist workspace holds one or more roles. Those roles decide who can build courses, deliver them, and see the results. You will learn what each role allows, how to invite a user, how to edit or remove one, and how to download your full roster when an access review asks who has access.
1. Opening the Users & roles page
Select your organization's logo at the top left to open Organization settings, then choose Users & roles.
The page lists every user in your workspace in a table with four columns: Name, Email, Last login, and Roles. The Download and Invite user buttons sit at the top of the page. Each row opens into an edit panel.
Use the search bar above the table to jump straight to a user when the list grows long. Searching narrows what you see on the page, not what the Download button exports.
2. Understanding the five roles
Arist has five roles, and a user can hold more than one. The Org Admin role reads Org Admin in the Roles column and everywhere you pick a role. Assign each user every role their job calls for. Someone who both builds and delivers courses holds Writer and Distributor together, for example.
Role | What it allows |
Org Admin | Every tool in Arist, plus inviting members and managing organization settings |
Manager | Everything except Organization-level settings, including inviting teammates to their own team |
Writer | Building courses and marking them Published |
Distributor | Choosing where and how courses are delivered |
Analyst | Viewing engagement metrics on the Analytics page |
Best Practices for Workspace Settings covers which roles to give whom. Start each user with the narrowest set that covers their job, and add roles as their responsibilities grow.
Note: Managers cannot open this page. From Team settings they can invite teammates to their own team and edit those teammates' roles, within four limits. A Manager can assign every role except Org Admin, and only an Org Admin can change the roles of a teammate who already holds it or who belongs to more than one team. No one can change their own roles, whatever role they hold.
3. Inviting a user
Select Invite user at the top of the page.
The panel opens asking for an email address first. The remaining fields appear once you have entered one. When the address belongs to someone already in your workspace, the note under it says you can edit their access instead of inviting a new user.
Fill in the fields, keyed to the labels on the panel:
Field | What to enter |
The address the invitation goes to. Required. | |
First name and Last name | The user's name. Both fields are optional. |
Roles | Check each role the user should hold. At least one is required, and this role's checkbox reads Org Admin. |
Teams | Select the team or teams the user belongs to. This field appears only if your organization uses Teams, where every user except an Org Admin must belong to at least one team. |
If the team you need does not exist yet, select Create new team in the Teams picker. Give the new team a name and, if you want one, a description. It arrives in the picker already selected. Everything you have entered in the invite panel stays where it is.
Select Invite user at the bottom of the panel to send the invitation. The new user receives an email from [email protected] with a link to finish setting up their account.
They review their details and the role you assigned, then select Continue to Arist.
4. Editing or removing a user
Open the three-dot menu at the end of a user's row.
Choose Edit, or select the user's name in the table, to open the Edit user panel. It carries the same fields as the invite panel. Adjust the name, email, or roles, then select Save. Check a new role as someone's responsibilities grow, or uncheck one they no longer need.
Note: You cannot change your own roles, even as an Org Admin, and you cannot remove yourself from the workspace. Both changes come from another Org Admin.
To remove a user, choose Remove from the same menu, then confirm in the window that opens.
5. Downloading your user roster
When a compliance audit or an access review asks who can reach your training data, the Download button beside Invite user exports your full roster as a CSV spreadsheet.
The export runs in the background, so you can keep working. A status bar on the page tracks its progress and then offers a download link. The finished file is also emailed to you with the subject "Your Arist Teammates export is ready". The file is named after your organization and the date, for example yourorg_teammates_2026-08-04.csv.
Important: The download is your complete roster. A search filter on the page does not narrow the file, so if you need a subset, download the full CSV and filter it in your spreadsheet tool.
Each row of the file is one user, with these columns:
Column | What it holds |
First name and Last name | The user's name as it appears on the roster. |
The address on the user's account. | |
Roles | The user's roles as lowercase role keys separated by semicolons, for example admin; writer, rather than the display names. |
Teams | The teams the user belongs to. This column is included only if your organization uses Teams. |
The file covers platform users only. Learners are never included, and neither are Arist's internal support accounts.
Try it: Select Download now and open the file when the email arrives. Keep the copy on hand for your next access review.
6. Checking when each user last logged in
The Last login column sits between Email and Roles. It shows how long ago each user last signed in, as a relative date such as 8 days ago or last month, or a time of day for someone who signed in today. Hover over a date to see the exact day.
A user who has never signed in reads Never. Look there for invitations that went unused. Select the column header to sort by it. The oldest logins come first ascending and the most recent come first descending, and the Never rows stay grouped at the bottom in both directions.
Note: Last login records the last time someone signed in, not the last time they used Arist. A user who stays signed in can work in Arist all week and still show an old date here. The roster CSV does not carry this column.
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Note: Need help at any point? Reach out to your Arist Customer Success contact, or email [email protected].




