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title: "Grant supervisor rights"
slug: "content-grant-supervisor-rights"
updated: 2026-07-23T10:06:50Z
published: 2026-07-23T10:06:50Z
canonical: "help.8x8.com/content-grant-supervisor-rights"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Grant supervisor rights

8x8 Contact Center administrators can grant special privileges to an agent, and allow agents to perform as 8x8 Contact Center supervisors. A supervisor has all the rights of an agent in addition to the ability to:

- Create and delete FAQ categories and answers.
- Monitor agents, queues, groups, and campaigns.
- Create and run historical reports for contact center metrics.

In addition to supervisory features, supervisors may choose to perform, or at least guide and validate the use of certain operations that agents have access to, such as agent profile configuration. These include the following optional features:

- Delete customer and case records from the **Local CRM**.
- Pull and delete pending email interactions from a queue.
- Use the Monitoring tab to remove agents from queue assignments.

**8x8 Contact Center** administrators grant supervisor privileges to an agent and allow permissions to monitor groups, queues, and campaigns in **8x8 Configuration Manager** and via **Users > Supervisor**.

**To enable supervising ability for an agent:**

1. From the **Configuration Menu**, open **Users**.
2. Find and click ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/e3a59e39-abd3-4423-964c-0a4008dc5673/Images/Documentation/icon_edit_18x18.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-03T21%3A51%3A49Z&se=2026-11-03T22%3A51%3A49Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=ZeLEi6WB3jSS%2F2stDFTm6e%2B98MG6NcwgiiQA%2FJEBAn0%3D).
3. Open the **Supervisor** tab. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/e3a59e39-abd3-4423-964c-0a4008dc5673/Images/Documentation/cfgmgragentssupervisor01.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-03T21%3A51%3A49Z&se=2026-11-03T22%3A51%3A49Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=ZeLEi6WB3jSS%2F2stDFTm6e%2B98MG6NcwgiiQA%2FJEBAn0%3D)
4. Select **This user is supervisor**.
5. Open the **Queues**, **Groups**, and **Campaigns** tabs for more configuration. The following table summarizes the options available under the **Supervisor** tab in the Queues, Groups, and Campaigns pages:

| Supervisor Tab Option | Description |
| --- | --- |
| This user is supervisor | If enabled, the user is granted supervisor rights. |
| Allow this supervisor to monitor calls | If enabled, the supervisor can join agents phone calls in progress for monitoring purposes. |
| Restrict report privileges | If enabled, restricts the data a supervisor views in historical reports. The supervisor views the groups and queues they monitor, or are a member of. |
| Assign All | If enabled, the agent is assigned to all available queues, groups, or campaigns defined in the tenant. |
| Media | Displays the type of media queue such as Chat, Email, Outbound Phone, Inbound Phone, or Voicemail. |
| Name | Displays the name of a queue, group, or campaign, such as Chat Channel or Support Queue. |
| Default Priority | Indicates the priority number of the queue as set under **Queues > Properties > Default Priority**. This number determines the priority of all interactions for a queue where 1 specifies lowest priority and 10 specifies highest priority. For details, refer to [Define Inbound Phone Queue Properties](/documentation/docs/content-define-inbound-phone-queue-properties). |
| Agent Count | Indicates the number of agents in a group. |
| Comment | Displays the description or comment of a group entered when creating a group and under **Group > General**. |
| Status | Shows the campaign status, such as completed, running, or stopped. |
| Enabled | Shows if the campaign is enabled. |
| Queue | Displays the queue associated to a campaign. You can specify the queue in **Campaign > Properties**. |
| Caller ID | Displays the campaign's caller ID specified when defining a campaign. The campaign's caller ID can be a channel number. |
| CRM Object | Displays the campaign's CRM Object, such as customer, specified when defining a campaign. |
| Assigned | If selected, assigns an agent to the selected queue, group, and campaign. |
6. Click **Save**.