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# Mentoring Participants

Set up profiles, permission sets, and sharing for your facilitators, mentors, and mentees.

There are several varieties of mentors. A mentor is a senior student or staff member who provides tutoring to first-year students. An alumnus from your institution can mentor students on networking or skills development. An outside organization that sets up work-study programs for students can be a mentor. Represent mentors by using the Provider Offering object.

A user becomes a mentee when they enroll in a mentoring program, or when you identify a related program enrollment record in their mentoring profile. Mentees can be students in your institution, but they can also be new staff members.

Mentoring Facilitators use the Mentoring app in Education Cloud to create programs, create mentoring profiles, assign mentors to mentees, manage assessments, and so on.

![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sfdo-education_cloud-264-0-0-production-enus/89403874-2a89-4126-b574-9db175c14f28/images/icon_important.png)

Important Staff mentors need a separate Customer Community Plus license to access the Mentoring portal as a mentor or mentee.

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small " summary="Editions Needed"><caption>Editions Needed</caption> <colgroup><col style="width:100%"></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with Education Cloud</td></tr></tbody></table>

- **[Set Up Mentoring Facilitators](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_set_up_mentoring_facilitators.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Create a permission set and set sharing rules to provide mentoring facilitators with the access that they need to support your mentoring program.
- **[Manage Sharing For Your Mentoring Program](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_manage_sharing_for_your_mentoring_program.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Update program sharing rules and create sharing sets for facilitators, mentors, and mentees.