---
title: "Adding and Removing Supervisors"
slug: "adding-and-removing-supervisors"
tags: ["supervisors", "permissions"]
updated: 2022-06-20T15:34:13Z
published: 2022-06-20T15:34:13Z
canonical: "support.smarteru.com/adding-and-removing-supervisors"
---

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# Adding and Removing Supervisors

All existing SmarterU users can be a supervisor. Simply selecting a user's name from the [**Supervisor** list on the User Profile workscreen](/v1/docs/user-profile-information#supervisors) makes a user a supervisor.

A few things to keep in mind:

- Users may have zero or more supervisors.
- The functionality that's available to supervisors is dependent on the [account's **Supervisor Access** setting](/v1/docs/account-settings#supervisor-access), and the supervisor's [account](/v1/docs/account-permissions) or [group permissions](/v1/docs/group-permissions-1). For details on the dashboards and workscreens that are available with the Supervisor Access setting's options, refer to [Supervisor Access](/v1/docs/supervisor-access).
- The [group permissions](/v1/docs/group-permissions-1) and [account permissions](/v1/docs/account-permissions) assigned to a user do NOT change when the user is made a supervisor.

## **Who Has Access**

The following users can [add](/v1/docs/adding-and-removing-supervisors#adding-a-supervisor) or [remove supervisors](/v1/docs/adding-and-removing-supervisors#removing-a-supervisor):

- Users with the [Group Manager](/v1/docs/group-permission-group-manager-gm) or [Manage Users](/v1/docs/group-permission-manage-users-mu) group permission.
- Supervisors, when the [account's **Supervisor Access** setting's *Edit Supervisees* option](/v1/docs/account-settings#supervisor-access) is checked.
- [Administrators or owners](/v1/docs/user-profile-information#access-level).

## **Adding a Supervisor**

To make a user a supervisor:

1. Ensure that the supervisor has a SmarterU user account. If they do not, [create a user account for the supervisor](/v1/docs/adding-a-user-manually).
2. For each user the supervisor oversees:
  1. [Edit the user](/v1/docs/editing-a-user-manually).
  2. Expand the [Profile Information](/v1/docs/user-profile-information) accordion.
  3. From the [Supervisor list](/v1/docs/user-profile-information#supervisors), click the ![](https://cdn.document360.io/7efaadab-fef6-4186-806a-2ca14c9ce9ea/Images/Documentation/adding-and-removing-supervisors-image-w9evdv8o.png) beside the supervisor's name.
  4. Click **Save**.

If you are using [SmarterU's user import functionality](/v1/docs/importing-users), simply include the supervisors' email addresses in either the [Supervisor (Add)](/v1/docs/importing-users-creating-a-csv-file#supevisor-add) or [Supervisor (Replace)](/v1/docs/importing-users-creating-a-csv-file#supervisor-replace) column for the user. The supervisor's email address must either be a valid email address of an existing user in the account, or the email address of another user in the CSV file.

In the example below, Jane Smith's supervisor is Dana Brown. Lucy White's supervisors are Dana Brown and Richard Lee. Andrew Todd's supervisor is Jane Smith, whose user account was created using this same CSV file.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/7efaadab-fef6-4186-806a-2ca14c9ce9ea/Images/Documentation/adding-and-removing-supervisors-image-2evhm94j.png)

## **Removing a Supervisor**

To remove a supervisor, complete the following for EACH supervisee:

1. Edit the user profile.
2. Expand the Profile Information accordion. The user's supervisors are listed in the Supervisors field.
3. Expand the **Supervisors** list. The user's supervisors are shaded.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/7efaadab-fef6-4186-806a-2ca14c9ce9ea/Images/Documentation/adding-and-removing-supervisors-image-25y0gzjr.png)

1. From the Supervisor list, click the ![](https://cdn.document360.io/7efaadab-fef6-4186-806a-2ca14c9ce9ea/Images/Documentation/adding-and-removing-supervisors-image-t3jtnbxz.png) beside the supervisor's name. The shading is removed from the supervisor's name.
2. Click **Save**.

If the supervisor you want to remove supervises a large number of users, it may be easier to remove the supervisor using the user import functionality.

If you are using SmarterU's [user import functionality](/v1/docs/importing-users), include the email address of the supervisor you want to remove from the user in the [Supervisor (Remove)](/v1/docs/importing-users-creating-a-csv-file#supervisor-remove) column for the user. In the example below, the user with the email address is removed as a supervisor from the users with employee IDs 5200, 5240, and 5294.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/7efaadab-fef6-4186-806a-2ca14c9ce9ea/Images/Documentation/adding-and-removing-supervisors-image-92teic2k.png)

## Related

- [Account: Settings](/account-settings.md)
- [Group Permissions](/group-permissions-1.md)
- [Identifying Supervisors](/identifying-supervisors.md)
- [Importing Users](/importing-users.md)
- [Supervisor Access](/supervisor-access.md)
- [User FAQs](/user-faqs.md)