by ben reynolds.
Yes, sitewide roles are only available to site admins. If you are a (lowly) teacher, or like me, a lowly "manager," you can't see site wide anything. Very frustrating.
More interesting is that using the filter in permissions you could not find Access groups.
I would upload a picture of what you should see, but I am suffering from "invalid JSON string" in both FF & Chrome. This may be a problem with the photo being a .png. NOPE. Doesn't accept a .jpg either. Now I sympathize with the 1 in 10 students who get this response, usually on IE The Lame.