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Moving between roles

Switch account from the profile menu, and find the way back once you are inside a Pro role.

Switch Roles

One consortium login can hold more than one role. As well as the consortium view, you can work as the Pro Admin or Pro User of your own account — useful for seeing exactly what a member institution sees.

Switching

Click the arrow beside your name at the top right.
Choose Switch account.
In the Manage Accounts box, pick Admin or User under your product.

The role you are currently in is always shown in small text beneath your name — Consortium, Admin or User. The left-hand menu changes to match: the consortium's Dashboard, Pro, Reports, Search and Support give way to the Pro Admin's Dashboard, Users, Reports, Repository, Integrations, Settings and Support.

The way back only appears once you have left. Opening Manage Accounts from the consortium shows just two options, Admin and User. Once you are inside a Pro role, the same box gains a third — Back to Consortium Dashboard, marked with a left arrow. So if you are hunting for a "switch to consortium" option before you have switched away, it genuinely is not there.

You can also move straight between Admin and User without returning to the consortium first — both stay listed in the box whichever role you are in.

Give the switch time. Changing role takes several seconds. On the way back to the consortium the screen briefly shows the previous role's menu with an empty page before it settles. That is the switch completing, not a failure — waiting a moment is quicker than reloading.

Why switch at all

To see the product exactly as a member institution's administrator sees it, when helping them through a problem.
To reach features that only exist inside an institution — repository management, LMS integrations and security settings live in the Pro Admin view, not the consortium one.
To check a submission workflow end to end as a user would experience it.

Switching role does not change anything for the institutions in your consortium. It only changes what you are looking at.

Related guides

Account & licence info → Consortium dashboard →

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