Changes to privacy settings (October 2025)
On October 23, 2025 we made some changes to privacy options for boards and sandboxes in Padlet. These changes give greater control over who can access your padlets while being more intuitive to use. When we migrate the old privacy options to the new ones, there will be no changes to who can access your padlets.
The old privacy options had a single list of options.
The new privacy options are simple toggles that can be turned on and off to control who can access your padlets.
Migrating old to new
To ensure a seamless change from the old system to the new, we've mapped the old options to the new toggles to ensure there are no changes to who can access your padlets. How we mapped old to new is shown below. You can read more about in our privacy and permissions settings article.
Old setting | New settings |
Private | Visitor permissions - NO ACCESS Library member permissions (if applicable) -NO ACCESS Show in library dashboard (if applicable) - OFF Require password - OFF Require visitors to log in - OFF Publish to profile and web - OFF |
Library wide - Hidden *only applies to padlets in a Team, Classroom, or School library | Visitor permissions - NO ACCESS Library member permissions (if applicable) -READER/COMMENTER/WRITER Reader, Commenter, or Writer depends on what was previously set Show in library dashboard (if applicable) - OFF Require password - OFF Require visitors to log in - ON Publish to profile and web - OFF |
Library wide - Dashboard *only applies to padlets in a Team, Classroom, or School library | Visitor permissions - NO ACCESS Library member permissions (if applicable) -READER/COMMENTER/WRITER Show in library dashboard (if applicable) - ON Require password - OFF Require visitors to log in - ON Publish to profile and web - OFF |
Secret - Password | Visitor permissions - READER/COMMENTER/WRITER Library member permissions (if applicable) -READER/COMMENTER/WRITER Show in library dashboard (if applicable) - OFF Require password - ON Require visitors to log in - OFF Publish to profile and web - OFF |
Secret - Log in | Visitor permissions - READER/COMMENTER/WRITER Library member permissions (if applicable) -READER/COMMENTER/WRITER Show in library dashboard (if applicable) - OFF Require password - OFF Require visitors to log in - ON Publish to profile and web - OFF |
Secret - All visitors | Visitor permissions - READER/COMMENTER/WRITER Library member permissions (if applicable) -READER/COMMENTER/WRITER Show in library dashboard (if applicable) - OFF Require password - OFF Require visitors to log in - OFF Publish to profile and web - OFF |
Public | Visitor permissions - READER/COMMENTER/WRITER Library member permissions (if applicable) -READER/COMMENTER/WRITER Show in library dashboard (if applicable) - ON Require password - OFF Require visitors to log in - OFF Publish to profile and web - ON |
