{"id":506,"date":"2022-08-05T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/hc\/uncategorized\/about-discussion-access-links\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T13:15:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:15:11","password":"","slug":"about-link-sharing","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/about-link-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"About Link Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enabling a sharing link in a discussion allows anyone with a link to the discussion to access it without needing to be invited. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Link Sharing<\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If a sharing link is enabled, <strong>logged in users who open the discussion link<\/strong> <strong>can contribute to the discussion with a specified <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/participant-roles-and-permissions\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"508\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">participant role<\/a><\/strong>. Users who are not logged in will only have Viewer permissions until they sign in or register. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can change the role participants have at any time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Be wary of students sharing the discussion link outside of the classroom<\/strong>, as any users with the link may be able to contribute.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you want students to be able to participate <strong>without<\/strong> needing Kialo accounts, you should also enable the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/about-instant-access-discussions\/\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Instant Access<\/a> feature.<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h_257595a4-5965-48b7-968b-7cc87adda30c\">How to Enable or Disable Link Sharing<\/h2><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>To enable or disable Link Sharing, you must have <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/hc\/participant-roles-and-permissions\/\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Owner or Admin permissions<\/a>.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section><p>Link Sharing is disabled by default.<\/p><p>To <strong>enable<\/strong> Link Sharing:<\/p><ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click the <strong>Share <\/strong>button in the top-right of a discussion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check the <strong><strong>Enable the sharing link<\/strong><\/strong> box to generate a sharing link and <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"wp-image-3389\" style=\"width: 16px\" src=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/qr-code.png\" alt=\"\"> QR code.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Optionally, change the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/participant-roles-and-permissions\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"508\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">role<\/a> participants will join as. When first using Kialo, we recommend leaving this as <strong>Writer<\/strong>. You can adjust this at any time.<\/li>\n<\/ol><p>To <strong>disable<\/strong> Link Sharing:<\/p><ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click the <strong>Share <\/strong>button in the top-right of a discussion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uncheck the <strong>Enable the sharing link<\/strong> box.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enabling a sharing link in a discussion allows anyone with a link to the discussion to access it without needing to be invited. About Link SharingHow to Enable or Disable Link SharingLink Sharing is disabled by default.To enable Link Sharing:To disable Link Sharing:<\/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-506","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-managing-participants"],"acf":{"zendesk_id":"360040172451"},"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":209,"total_views":"816","reactions":{"happy":"3","normal":"1","sad":"1"},"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\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}