> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://help.cloudjournals.com.au/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://help.cloudjournals.com.au/collaborating/overview.md).

# Overview

Whether you are a [Contributor](/collaborating/overview.md#contributor) or Full Access User, collaborating is an integral part of performance standard review and personal development. By constructively contributing to other users' [Journals](/the-core/journals.md), [Learning Logs](/the-core/learning-log.md) or [Plan](/the-core/plan.md), you provide them with the knowledge to further develop themselves.

Collaborating in Cloud Journals is split into two parts:

* ***Beneficiaries*** are people you contribute and provide feedback to. You can only see content they have given you access to.
* ***Contributors*** are people who contribute and provide feedback to you. They can only see what you give them access to.

Both are covered in detail in the next few sections.

## Relationships <a href="#relationships" id="relationships"></a>

*Relationships* are connections you have to other users. They are unidirectional; if you have access to someone's content, they don't necessarily have access to yours (and vice versa). In a *relationship*, each of you perform a [Role](/collaborating/overview/roles-and-permissions.md). For example, if you are a Contributor to someone else's content in the role as their *Supervisor*, your counterpart or *Beneficiary* is known as the *Supervisee*. Different relationships allow different levels of [access or permissions](/collaborating/overview/roles-and-permissions.md) to a user's content. These permissions are covered in the next section.

## What is a Contributor? <a href="#contributor" id="contributor"></a>

A Contributor is any user who has been granted access by another user to their content, whether at a read-only capacity or greater. Contributors can take on various [Roles](/collaborating/overview/roles-and-permissions.md) for their Beneficiaries with certain permissions that define their *relationship*. This is further explained in [Roles & Permissions](/collaborating/overview/roles-and-permissions.md).