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How do you do it? Effectively managing power users for multiple audiences

  • September 17, 2026
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Reaching out to the community here, as we are feeling pretty defeated.

The core problem is that Docebo’s Power User model is largely static and manually maintained, while our use case requires reusable profiles, dynamic branch scoping, profile-based automation, and MCP support.

Our structure includes:

  • Three branches: Internal employees, Partners, and Customers
  • Different admin levels within each branch
  • Reporting-only leaders who need Insights access
  • Admins who need to manage users, groups, courses, learning plans, or enrollments
  • Customer and partner managers who should be restricted to their own group or branch

Our main challenges are:

  • Assigning a Power User profile does not automatically assign all required user, course, and learning-plan resources.
  • Only one Power User profile can be assigned to a user, so we cannot easily combine permissions for people with multiple responsibilities.
  • Power User profiles cannot be used as criteria for dynamic groups, which prevents us from automating profile-based enrollments.
  • Insights access requires multiple separate steps: Power User status, profile assignment, resource visibility, and dashboard sharing.
  • Power User administration is not currently supported through MCP, limiting our ability to automate these workflows.

How do other organizations manage this?

  • Do you create profiles by branch, by job function, or by permission level?
  • How do you automate assigning user and course resources to Power Users?
  • How do you handle users who need access across multiple branches or have multiple admin responsibilities?
  • Have you implemented API, Docebo Connect, or another workaround for dynamic resource assignment?
  • How do you automate group membership and enrollments based on Power User access?
  • How do you ensure leaders consistently receive the correct Insights dashboards without manual sharing?
  • What governance or audit process do you use to prevent cross-branch data exposure

    We would especially appreciate real-world permission models, automation examples, or recommended architecture patterns for managing Power Users at scale.

1 reply

JeanetteMcVeigh
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Hi. 

One thing I wanted to mention first is that you can assign up to 10 profiles for a Power User (https://help.docebo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020081500-Creating-and-managing-Power-Users#h_01HAXXJXYN3ZBQN40P1MB3K140)

Now here are some other things. :-)

We have multiple profiles that we use. Novice, Beginner and Advanced is our main grouping we use and as the names indicate the persmission get more advanced. We have our PUs go through training on Docebo University and then take a test before granting any permissions. We have these three main layers because we do have some folks that just need Novice ‘stuff’ (user creation, course creation) and then more stuff gets added as they go through training and take the other tests. We also have some profiles for reporting and other specific things that sometimes are needed. We have one profile for page editing. We do a  the training for page editing ourselves and NOT page creation, we control that, but they can edit what is there’s once it’s created.

We have our users organized by branches and each PowerUser only has access to the one main branch (their Member Organization) and any sub-branches we create under it.

All assignments, for us, are manual. We don’t use any automation so we can ensure we are in control at all times. We have one admin (me) and this works for us even though it’s slow at times.  I would guess there is some automation, we don’t use it though. Helps us keep more control actually, or at least feel like we are in control :P

We don’t allow cross branch control and doing things manually has helped us keep that control.

Not sure any of this helps you, hope it does.  Well, I think the note about 10 profiles shoudl help at the very least.

Good luck!  Are you going to Inspire in March? There are great opportunities to learn and connect there as well.  Kind regards, Jeanette