There is a very big difference between a node and a view, one that often confuses people who are new to Drupal.
A node is a single entry that uses some content type submission form. This can be a Page, a Book Page, a Story, etc. If you were to draw a visual map of your Drupal site, where each piece of content was a point that was connected to other points, each point would be a node. The term node is specific to Drupal.
A view, on the other hand, is a term that is used commonly in the Relational Database Management field. A view, in general, is a collection of data that is lumped together and displayed as a group. A good, general example of a view is a basic data report. In Drupal, a view can be a collection of nodes that are somehow related, a collection of data about users of the site, or a collection of data about the site system - among other things.
By default, in OSU Drupal, the Author role is permitted to create and edit all default node types. This includes the following:
Conversely, by default, in OSU Drupal, Authors can not create or edit a view. View development using the Views module is actually an advanced topic that requires either some type of training or previous experience.
One easy way to spot a view is the presence of a list of something that automatically updates. For example, if you have a list of employees on your Drupal site that automatically updates when you create an Employee node, then the list that you're looking at is a view.
Another way to spot a view is if you are logged in and permitted to create a particular content type, but you do not see the standard View and Edit tabs used for a node. A view does not have these. If you see, for example, an error in an entry that is displaying in a view, you will need to track down the node either through a link to the node that may be supplied in the view, or through the content list at Admin menu > Content management > Content.
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