Note: Much of this info was copied and pasted from Google's Help files and is presented here only as a quick reference. See for the full printed on-line training go to: Google Groups - On-line Training
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Users may have the role of Owner, Manager or Member.
Owners may:
- Send messages to the group
- Add or remove group members
- Change member roles -- for example, from member to owner
- Change any of the group's settings
- Delete the group
- More info on the role of an Owner / Administrator maybe found at: Google Groups - Owner / Admin Role
Members may:
- Subscribe to a group
- View a group's discussion archives
- View a group's members list
- Unsubscribe from a group
- More info on participating in a Group may be found at: Participating in a Google Group
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From: Google Group Roles
The Owner role - The Owner role has the highest level of permissions and contains only the creator of the group when the group is created. Other characteristics of this role are:
- Owners have the most permissions of any member.
- Owners can add other roles and even delete the group itself.
- Permissions for the Owner role can’t be modified.
- Owners don’t have all of the permissions. If an owner needs more permissions, add the owner to an additional role with the needed permissions.
- You can add additional owners or remove owners from the Owner role.
- This role cannot be removed.
The Manager role - The Manager role contains all elected managers of the Google group. Managers generally have more permissions than members, but fewer permissions than owners. Other characteristics of this role are:
- Managers primarily have member and message management responsibilities.
- Managers can add or remove managers.
- This role cannot be removed.
The Member role
- Any permission set on the Member role is automatically set on all other roles.
- Permissions set in the Member role are selected and grayed out in the other roles.
- This role cannot be removed.
Group Types
Three Google Group types may be used. The group type is selected as the Google Group is created.
Email list - An Email list group is one whereby members only use Email to communicate. This group type is common in organizations where a single email alias is desired to communicate to a certain group of people using email.
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