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@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Open edX Verawood Release - Product Release Notes
 
    stay_up_to_date
    verawood_lti_cert
+   verawood_console
+   verawood_rp
 
 Information for site operators and developers, including information on how to
 enable and/or configure new features that require additional work, can be found

diff --git a/source/community/release_notes/verawood/verawood_console.rst b/source/community/release_notes/verawood/verawood_console.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+.. _Verawood Roles and Permissions Console:
+
+Roles and Permissions Console
+############################################
+
+   .. image:: /_images/educator_how_tos/console_course_team_members.png
+      :alt: The Team Members tab of the Roles and Permissions console, listing role assignments across libraries and courses
+      :width: 800
+
+The Verawood release upgrades the Roles and Permissions console,
+letting you manage user access across multiple parts of the platform
+from a single view.
+
+You can now assign a role to one or multiple users, and apply it to
+one or multiple spaces, all in a single action. Verawood also adds
+organization-level assignment. Granting a role to a user at the
+organization level covers not only what exists today, but everything
+created in that organization afterward.
+
+This is the same console already used for libraries. With Verawood,
+course authoring also lives here too, if enabled — see
+:ref:`Verawood Course Authoring Roles`.
+
+.. _Verawood Console Available:
+
+What's Available in Verawood
+*****************************
+
+* **Unified interface**: shows all role assignments in one place,
+  filterable by role, organization, and scope.
+
+* **Assign Role wizard**: assign a role to multiple users and multiple
+  scopes in a single action.
+
+* **Organization-level assignment**: grant a role to a user across an
+  entire organization, including scopes created later.
+
+* **User audit view**: shows a user's roles across every course and
+  library you have permission to manage.
+
+* **Filtered entry points**: the console opens filtered to the context
+  you came from, unfiltered from the Studio home page, or filtered to
+  a single course or library when opened from there.
+
+Not Affected by This Release
+*****************************
+
+* Course content and how it is authored. The console changes how course
+  teams and library teams are managed, not what authors create.
+
+* :ref:`Legacy Libraries <Legacy Content Libraries Overview>` that have
+  not yet been migrated to Content Libraries.
+
+* LMS features outside of role assignment, such as grading, cohorts,
+  groups, and discussion forums.
+
+* Whether course authoring roles are available for a given course,
+  which depends on the Course Authoring waffle flag; see
+  :ref:`Verawood Course Authoring Roles`.
+
+.. seealso::
+
+   :ref:`Verawood Course Authoring Roles` (release notes)
+
+   :ref:`Manage Course Authoring Roles` (how-to)
+
+   :ref:`Add users to Libraries` (how-to)
+
+   :ref:`Guide to Course Team Roles` (reference)
+
+
+**Maintenance chart**
+
++--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+
+| Review Date  | Working Group Reviewer        |   Release      |Test situation                  |
++--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+
+| [DATE]       | [REVIEWER]                    |   Verawood     | [PASS/FAIL]                    |
++--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+
diff --git a/source/community/release_notes/verawood/verawood_rp.rst b/source/community/release_notes/verawood/verawood_rp.rst
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+.. _Verawood Course Authoring Roles:
+
+Course Authoring Roles and Permissions
+############################################
+
+   .. image:: /_images/educator_how_tos/console_course_team_members.png
+      :alt: The Team Members tab of the Roles and Permissions console, showing course team members
+      :width: 800
+
+With Verawood, course authoring joins the Roles and Permissions console
+already used for content libraries. Course team management now also
+uses the same assignment and permission patterns as libraries,
+available through the same console (see
+:ref:`Verawood Roles and Permissions Console`).
+
+Course Admin and Course Staff are the new system's equivalents of the
+legacy Admin and Staff roles for a course: same responsibilities, new
+assignment mechanism.
+
+This feature is opt-in: the Course Authoring waffle flag is disabled by
+default and can be enabled per platform, organization, or course. See
+`Enabling the Feature`_ below for setup instructions.
+
+.. _Verawood Authoring Roles Available:
+
+Roles
+*****
+
+* **Course Admin** — the new-system equivalent of the legacy Admin
+  role: course team management through the Roles and Permissions
+  console and full authoring access in Studio.
+
+* **Course Staff** — the new-system equivalent of the legacy Staff
+  role: full course lifecycle management in Studio.
+
+For a full breakdown of what each role can do, see
+:ref:`Course Authoring Roles Under the New Roles and Permissions System <New System Course Authoring Roles>`.
+
+Scope and Impact
+****************
+
+While this feature is enabled, the platform supports both the legacy
+Instructor Dashboard roles (Admin, Staff, Limited Staff) and the new
+Course Admin / Course Staff roles at the same time. New roles apply
+according to the scope where the flag is enabled — platform,
+organization, or course.
+
+The Roles and Permissions console shows and lets you act on
+course-authoring roles only for the specific courses and organizations
+where the Course Authoring flag is actually enabled — not simply
+because it's enabled somewhere else in your access. Turning the flag
+on or off also triggers a migration of role assignments behind the
+scenes: for a single course or organization this can happen
+automatically, depending on your site's configuration, but a
+platform-wide change always requires your site operator to run the
+migration manually. Until that migration finishes, there can be a
+brief window where a role assignment does not yet reflect the current
+flag state. This is expected during a flag transition — if it doesn't
+resolve on its own, check with your site operator.
+
+Enabling the Feature
+*********************
+
+Disabled by default. Can be enabled at the platform, organization, or
+course level. See the operator release notes:
+https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OEPM/pages/6331662350/RBAC+AuthZ+for+Course+Authoring+-+Operator+Release+Notes#Enabling-the-Feature-Flag
+
+Migration of Existing Course Role Assignments
+**********************************************
+
+Verawood includes migration tools to synchronize existing Admin and
+Staff course role assignments between the legacy system and Roles and
+Permissions. Depending on how your site is configured, this can happen
+automatically when the Course Authoring flag is turned on for a course
+or organization — existing Admin and Staff assignments carry over to
+the new system without manual steps. If automatic migration isn't
+enabled on your site, your site operator can run the migration
+separately. Either way, no role assignments are lost in the process.
+
+Future Improvements
+*******************
+
+The Course Authoring waffle flag is expected to default to enabled at
+the platform level in a future release (timeline not yet committed).
+
+After Verawood, the Roles and Permissions work is expected to continue
+in several directions:
+
+New Studio roles are planned to separate authoring responsibilities
+from managing an active course, and to introduce a read-only role for
+reviewing course content in Studio without edit access.
+
+Roles and Permissions will also expand to the LMS, bringing the same
+model to learner-facing features and runtime course management.
+
+Documentation with design patterns, guides, and extension points for
+the community to build on top of the new system are also on the
+roadmap.
+
+.. seealso::
+
+   :ref:`Verawood Roles and Permissions Console` (release notes)
+
+   :ref:`Manage Course Authoring Roles` (how-to)
+
+   :ref:`Guide to Course Team Roles` (reference)
+
+   :ref:`Add Course Team Members` (how-to)
+
+
+**Maintenance chart**
+
++--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+
+| Review Date  | Working Group Reviewer        |   Release      |Test situation                  |
++--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+
+| [DATE]       | [REVIEWER]                    |   Verawood     | [PASS/FAIL]                    |
++--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+