{"id":504,"date":"2022-08-05T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/hc\/uncategorized\/inviting-participants-to-a-discussion\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T18:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:24:34","password":"","slug":"inviting-participants-to-a-discussion","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/inviting-participants-to-a-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Inviting Participants to a Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"kialo-callout note\">\n    <div class=\"callout-icon-wrapper\">\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/wp-content\/themes\/wp-helpcenter-theme\/assets\/icons\/book.svg\" alt=\"note\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" class=\"callout-icon\">\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"callout-content\">\n        <em>Note:<\/em>\n\t\t<p>You must have <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/hc\/participant-roles-and-permissions\/\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Admin permissions<\/a> or higher to invite participants to a discussion.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section><section class=\"kialo-callout note\">\n    <div class=\"callout-icon-wrapper\">\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/wp-content\/themes\/wp-helpcenter-theme\/assets\/icons\/book.svg\" alt=\"note\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" class=\"callout-icon\">\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"callout-content\">\n        <em>Note:<\/em>\n\t\t<p>Users must be on your <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/contact-lists\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"3413\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">contact list<\/a> to invite them by their username. Inviting a user by their email address will add them to your contact list.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section><p>To invite participants to a discussion:<\/p><ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click the <strong>Share<\/strong> button located in the top-right of a discussion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Invite<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the &lsquo;<strong>Invite to this Discussion<\/strong>&lsquo; section, click <strong>Invite Users<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the first field, type the email address(es) you want to invite, separated by spaces, or select users from your <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/contact-lists\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"3413\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">contact list<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under <strong>&lsquo;Role&rsquo;<\/strong>, select the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/participant-roles-and-permissions\/\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">participant role<\/a> you would like to invite the users with.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Optionally, you can include a message and\/or choose to send an email notification to the users you invite.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once ready, click <strong>Invite<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol><p>From the &lsquo;<strong>Invite to this Discussion<\/strong>&lsquo; section, you can also invite a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/about-teams\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"559\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Kialo Team<\/a> to the discussion or import from <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/?post_type=docs&amp;p=591\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"591\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Google Classroom<\/a>.<\/p><p>Alternatively, you can enable <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/about-link-sharing\/\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Link Sharing<\/a>, which allows users who follow the link to access the discussion with a specified role.<\/p><p>If a user has <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/turning-off-email-invites\/\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">disabled email invites<\/a>, they can only be invited by their username, requiring them to be on your contact list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To invite participants to a discussion:From the &lsquo;Invite to this Discussion&lsquo; section, you can also invite a Kialo Team to the discussion or import from Google Classroom.Alternatively, you can enable Link Sharing, which allows users who follow the link to access the discussion with a specified role.If a user has disabled email invites, they can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"wds_primary_doc_category":0,"wds_primary_doc_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[54],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-504","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-managing-participants"],"acf":{"zendesk_id":"360035116811"},"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":155,"total_views":"771","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"jenkins","author_nicename":"jenkins","author_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/author\/jenkins\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Inviting and Managing Participants","term_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/sections\/managing-participants\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}