> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://parabola.io/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Course overview

> Learn how to effectively serve your team, manage your account, and stay on top of key billing metrics — a complete guide for Parabola account admins.

<Note>
  This is a **Parabola 201** course. We recommend completing [Parabola 101: Foundations](/parabola-university/101/fundamentals/start-here) before starting here.
</Note>

## Who this course is for

This course is built for **account admins and org admins** — the people responsible for maintaining their organization's Parabola account and making sure the rest of the team can do their work without friction.

If you're fielding questions like *"Why did our flow stop running?"* or *"Can you give Marcus edit access to that flow?"* or *"How many credits did we use last month?"* — this course is for you.

<Tip>
  **Common admin responsibilities:** Onboarding and offboarding team members, monitoring credit consumption, managing integration credentials, organizing the team's flow library, and staying on top of billing.
</Tip>

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## Your role as an admin

As an org admin, your responsibilities fall into three areas:

1. **Understanding credit consumption** — knowing how credits are calculated, how your team's flows use them, and how to stay ahead of your plan's limits
2. **Managing users and flows** — adding and removing team members, setting the right permissions, organizing flows into a maintainable structure, and handling offboarding cleanly
3. **Ensuring data access** — controlling who can use which integrations, and making sure the right people have access to the right data

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## What you'll learn in this course

<Steps>
  <Step title="User types & permissions">
    We start by mapping out the three user roles in Parabola — Admin, Editor, and Viewer — and the specific permission scopes available to admins on different plans.
  </Step>

  <Step title="What is a credit">
    We define what a credit is, how individual steps and AI steps consume them differently, and what happens as you approach your plan's credit limit.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Usage analytics & reporting">
    We'll show you exactly how to report on credit usage by flow and by user — so your management team has full visibility into how Parabola is being used across the organization.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Authenticating integrations & managing permissions">
    Learn the different approaches to connecting integrations, how to share credentials across your team, and how to implement a governance process for flow approvals.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Managing flows & folders">
    Finally, we'll cover how to add and remove users, organize flows into a clear folder structure, and handle the operational side of keeping your account running smoothly.
  </Step>
</Steps>

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## What you'll take away

After completing this course, you'll be able to:

* Understand how credits are consumed and anticipate your team's needs
* Use usage reporting and analytics to monitor activity across your organization
* Configure and manage user permission levels
* Set up a maintainable folder and flow structure for your team

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<Card icon="toolbox" title="Getting oriented">
  Before jumping into Lesson 2, spend a few minutes getting familiar with the two pages you'll use most as an admin:

  * **[Team page](https://parabola.io/app/team)** — where you manage users, roles, and permissions
  * **[Billing & Usage page](https://parabola.io/app/billing)** — where you monitor credits, view invoices, and access reports

  You'll return to both throughout the course.
</Card>