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title: Add and manage authors
description: Account admins, authors, and co-authors can add employees with admin permission as authors and co-authors to a course and manage them if required.
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# Add and manage authors

Account admins, authors, and co-authors can [add employees with admin permission as authors](https://help.theemployeeapp.com/add-and-manage-authors#add-authors) and co-authors to a course and [manage them](https://help.theemployeeapp.com/add-and-manage-authors#manage-authors) if required.

If the account admin is not an author or a co-author, they can add themselves in either role.

### **Add authors**

Navigate to **Learning** on the left pane.

1. At the top right, click **Manage Resources**.
2. Click **Authored by you** and select a course.

In the *Info* tab, you can view the *Author* field.

  3.   Hover over the author's name and click the **Pen ![Pen-1](https://help.theemployeeapp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Pen-1.png?width=20&height=20&name=Pen-1.png) Icon**.

![Add and manage authors1-3](https://help.theemployeeapp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Add%20and%20manage%20authors1-3.jpg?width=688&height=355&name=Add%20and%20manage%20authors1-3.jpg)

  4.   Click the drop-down, search, and select the employees with admin permission, and then click **Save**.

![Add and manage authors2-4](https://help.theemployeeapp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Add%20and%20manage%20authors2-4.jpg?width=688&height=355&name=Add%20and%20manage%20authors2-4.jpg)

**📒Note:** If the admin is not an author or co-author, they can view only the Content and Learners tabs. Authors and co-authors can view the Info, Learners, and Insights tabs.

### **Manage authors**

The author can remove other authors and co-authors if required.

  4.   Follow steps [1 to 3](https://help.theemployeeapp.com/add-and-manage-authors#step-one).

  5.   Click the **Cancel ![Close-1](https://help.theemployeeapp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Close-1.png?width=20&height=20&name=Close-1.png) Icon** for the author or co-author you want to remove, and then click **Save**.

**📒Note:** You cannot leave the Author field blank.

 

 

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