Administrators can create and manage organization structures to reflect those of the organizations that you want to configure courses for. For example, you can set up hierarchical organization structures for a parent company and its subsidiaries. Other ways to organize companies are by geographical region or department. For example, company > office location > department.
You can manage organizations individually in the Organization Maintenance page, or in bulk via the Organization Data Loader. Third-party applications can also query organization data via the organization API.
Each organization can have its own settings for:
You can create custom attributes to help classify your organizations, and also assign user groups to organizations and (optionally) their child organizations.
To manage organizations, your user role must have permission for Allow Organization Maintenance in System Roles (Data Access Control > Role General Permissions).
To create and manage organizations, go to Manage Center > Users > Organization Maintenance.
Additional Information
Add an Organization as a Child
Move an Organization within the Hierarchy