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Share a padlet with users outside our organization

Updated 3 weeks ago by Carla Sese

Padlet for Schools accounts (at padlet.org)

Padlets created with a Padlet for Schools account at padlet.org are slightly different to the ones you make in your personal account. They are Secret by default which means that only the owner can access the padlet they have created -- until shared.

Change privacy settings

If you have a Padlet for Schools account at padlet.org and want to share a padlet with a non-member seamlessly, you can make changes to the padlet's Settings to allow access as a first step.

  1. Click the Share arrow icon at the top-right of your padlet.
  2. Change 'Link privacy' to Secret (this means your padlet will be available for anyone with the link).
  3. Click 'Visitor permissions' to assign access capabilities (No access, Reader, Commenter, Writer, Moderator). Read more about Visitor permission options.

You can now publish and share the padlet with anyone -- registration not required! Here are a bunch of ways one can publish and invite people to access a padlet.

Because the users aren't in the same organization as you, they'll show up as 'Anonymous' if they create a post on your padlet. We suggest informing those users that they need to indicate their names on their posts :)

Padlet for Schools accounts (at padlet.com)

Change privacy settings

If you have a Padlet for Schools account at padlet.com and want to share a padlet with a non-member seamlessly, you can make changes to the padlet's Settings to allow access as a first step.

  1. Click the Share arrow icon at the top-right of your padlet.
  2. Change 'Link privacy' to Secret (this means your padlet will be available for anyone with the link).
  1. Click 'Visitor permissions' to assign access capabilities (No access, Reader, Commenter, Writer, Moderator). Read more about Visitor permission options.

You can now publish and share the padlet with anyone -- registration not required! Here are a bunch of ways one can publish and invite people to access a padlet.

Add collaborators

Add users outside of your organization as a collaborator! This invites users to contribute to your padlet. Adding collaborators to your padlet is also a great way to grant individual permissions. For instance, if you'd like your padlet set to Commenter (so that users can only make comments on the padlet's posts) but there are a few people you'd like to have Writer permissions, you can add them as a collaborator to grant them their own unique permissions. Learn how to add collaborators to your padlet here!

With a Padlet for Schools account at padlet.com, collaborators can be users within your organization or someone outside of the school! As long as they have a Padlet account, they can be added as a collaborator.

FAQs

Why can't I add users outside of my organization as a collaborator?
Unfortunately, if you have a Padlet for Schools account at padlet.org, you cannot add users that are outside of your organization as collaborators on a padlet. This doesn't mean outside users can't contribute to your padlet, though! Just make sure your 'Visitor permissions' are set to Writer and the 'Link privacy' is set to Secret. Then, the users you share your padlet with (inside or outside the organization) can contribute to your padlet!

If you are having trouble adding users outside of your organization as collaborators within a Padlet for Schools account at padlet.com, please contact us!

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