Why does an admin also get added to the team?

When someone is an admin in Coursetune, they technically can do anything within the platform. However, we didn't want them to show up as a regular member of every course (level 4 team) and program (level 3) team and we certainly didn't want to spam admins with every communication happening in every course (level-4 object).

If you want someone who is an admin to be a member of your course team or program team, ask the manager of the team to add the admin and assign them one of the four team roles. Okay, it's possible that the admin could do more than the role you've assigned them, but the role let's the admin know what you want their boundaries to be on the course or program.

In your Access list for a course or program, you can tell if someone on your team is actually an admin too. Just look for the outlined checkmarks (admin) instead of solid ones (regular user).