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Working With Your Team

Some questions benefit from more than one expert’s perspective. COPA U supports multi-expert collaboration with three distinct roles.

The Three Roles

Owner — The expert who claimed the question. The owner drives the answer from draft to publication. Owners can:

  • Edit the draft
  • Invite and remove team members
  • Submit for review
  • Approve the answer

Collaborator — An expert invited to help draft the answer. Collaborators can:

  • Edit the draft directly (same editor access as the owner)
  • Participate in discussion
  • Approve the answer

Reviewer — An expert invited to evaluate the answer’s quality. Reviewers can:

  • Read the draft (but not edit it)
  • Post comments and suggestions in the discussion thread
  • Approve or withhold approval

The key distinction: collaborators can edit, reviewers can only read and comment.

Inviting Team Members

As the owner, open the Team tab in the right column and click Invite. Select an expert from the dropdown — only experts whose categories match the question appear. Choose whether to invite them as a collaborator or reviewer.

Invited experts see the question in their dashboard and can begin contributing immediately.

The Discussion Thread

The Discussion tab is where the team coordinates. Two message types are available:

  • Comment — General discussion. Use this for questions, context, or coordination (“I’ll handle the avionics section, can you cover the procedural aspects?”)
  • Suggestion — A specific recommendation about the draft content. Use this when you want to propose a change without editing directly.

The thread also shows system messages — when someone joins, approves, or reverts a version — so it doubles as an activity log.

Joining a Question

You don’t need an invitation to join. If a question matches your expertise categories, you can join on your own:

  • During Drafting: click Join as Collaborator to help write the answer
  • During Review: click Join as Reviewer to evaluate the draft

This keeps the process open while still giving the owner control over who’s on the team.

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