The designer password can be changed by the administrator. Each course can have any number of graders. A grader has the same privileges as a student, but can also mark quizzes and manipulate student grades. The course designer creates the grader accounts. Each course can have any number of students.
Students can change their own password at the discretion of the designer.
The course designer creates the students accounts. When signing onto a course, WebCT provides a different view of the course depending on whether the person signing on is a designer, grader or student. The designer and grader views are supersets of the student view. A course developed using WebCT is organized around one main homepage. A tool page behaves exactly like the main homepage, except it is not reached immediately on entering the course.