• As aGoogle Workspace administrator, Google gives you the ability to share your administrative responsibilities with your users a.k.a delegated administration.
• You do this by assigning roles to different users. For instance, you can let a userreset users passwords.
• Watch the video to learn how you can delegate roles to your users or continue for instructions.

1. Login to admin console

• First step is for you to login to your Google Workspace admin console using one of the ways discussed above.

• Remember, you must be an admin to be able to assign roles to other users.

2. Search a user

• Search for the user you want to assign roles to by typing their username in the search bar.

• As you type their username, you should see auto suggestions, just click on the name once it appears as you don't have to type the entire username.

• See next step.

3. Click 'show more'

• While still on the same page, scroll down the page and click on 'Show more' text link.

4. Click 'Admin roles and privileges'

• Now scroll down the page then click on 'Admin roles and privileges' option.
• As the name suggests, this the option that lets you delegate administrative roles to your users.

5 (a). Manage Roles

• You can assignpre-built rolesor create new roles in case you don't find existing roles suiting your use-case.

• To assign pre-built roles, click on 'Manage Roles' button then see next step.

5 (b). Select roles to assign

• From the list of roles, check appropriate role you wish o assign to a user. Then click 'Update Roles' button to save.
• See a detailed description for each role byclicking on this link.

6 (a). Create custom role

• If pre-existing roles do not fit your situation, you can create a new role which you can then assign to a user.

• To create a custom role, click on 'Create new roles' text link.

6 (b). Name new role

• Next click on 'Create a New Role' button on the left menu

• Click 'Create' button to continue.
• A popup form shows up where you can (1) type a name and (2) a description for the new role you're about to create.

• Click 'Create' button to continue.

6 (c). Select previleges

• Now you can select privileges that users with this new role will have.

• To select a privilege, check the box against the privilage. You can also click on little arrows to expand a set of privileges.

• Click save to create new role.

6 (d). Assign new role

• Now that you've created your new custom role, you can now assign this role to a user.

• Follow through step 5(a) to 5(b) and now you should be able to assign a new role to a user

Wrap up!

• That is all to it. You can now delegate roles to your Google Workspace users and even better, create your own custom roles tailored just for your use-case.

• For questions and comments, please leave them in the comment section below and I'll be glad to help.