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How can I update Space settings?
How can I update Space settings?

Find out how to configure your Class, 1:1 and Group Spaces

Alasdair McMillan avatar
Written by Alasdair McMillan
Updated over 5 months ago

Updating settings for your Spaces is as easy as it was to create them!

Configuring Access to Spaces

By default, all settings are toggled to the highest level of privacy. If you'd like to adjust any of your space settings, follow the instructions below.

Regardless of what space you want to edit access settings for, you can do so by following the steps below:

  1. Click Spaces

  2. Click the menu button (3 dots) on the Space

  3. Click Edit Space Settings

  4. Click either Student Access or Family Access

  5. Click Hidden, Visible or Active depending on the type of access you want students and families to have

  6. For the Visible and Active status options, toggle any specific options on or off according to your preferences

  7. Click Save

Class Spaces

Class space settings will allow you to choose what students and family can see and do in their feeds.

Default settings:

  1. Students will see their own posts, their peers' posts and their teachers' posts.

  2. Students will not be able to react to or comment on each other's posts, or view other students' and teachers' comments on each other's posts.

  3. Family accounts will not be able to see content within the space until it is enabled by a teacher.

You can choose to enable the following optional settings for visibility of content for students in your class and their families:

  • Students' ability to react to each other's posts

  • Students' ability to view other students' comments on each other's posts

  • Students' ability to comment on each other's posts

  • Students' ability to view teacher comments on each other's posts

  • Family members' ability to view the Class Space

  • Family members' ability to react to and comment on their student's posts

What is the difference between Hidden, Visible and Active status?

  1. Hidden status - The space is hidden. Students and/or family members can't see or post to this space.

  2. Visible status - Students see the space, but can’t post or interact with other students' posts. Linked family members can only be given Visible access, with additional options to allow interacting with their linked students' posts.

    • Note: As a privacy measure, family never have access to view posts that do not include their linked student, or comments added by other families.

    • Comments added by other families are displayed to family accounts as 'Anonymous - Message not visible.'

    • Family can see comments added by other family members linked to the same student

  3. Active status - Students can post to the space. Depending on the space type and specific access options you have selected, they may or may not be able to see and interact with other students' posts.

Why can my students see a list of all students in the Space?

  • When you have a Class or Group space configured to allow students to view each other's posts, this also displays a list of names on the left side of the screen in student accounts

  • As in the teacher account, this menu allows students to filter the feed and view only posts by a particular student

  • Students cannot post on behalf of other students, but can react to or comment on their posts if that option has been enabled by the teacher

  • To hide this list of student names in a Space for students, you can disable the option for students to view each other's posts

Group Spaces

Default Settings:

  • Group spaces are Hidden from students and families until access is enabled

Configurable options:

  • The Group Space can be made Active for students, allowing them to see and post within it

  • The Group Space can be made Visible for family members, with additional options to allow them to react to their students' posts, or comment on their own linked students' posts.

Editing students included within Group Spaces:

  1. Click Spaces

  2. Click the 3 grey dots on the Space box

  3. Click Edit Students

  4. Click the edit pencil to update the Group Name

  5. Click the trash can to delete the group if needed

  6. Click the "X" to remove a student from the Space

  7. Click Add Group to add another group*

  8. Click Save

Note: you can only add additional groups if you have other students in your class not yet included in groups. If all students have already been placed in groups, the Add Group button will be grey.


1:1 Spaces

Default settings:

  • 1:1 spaces are Hidden from students and families until access is enabled

Configurable options:

  • 1:1 spaces can be made Visible or Active for students

  • 1:1 spaces can be made Visible for family members, with additional options to allow them to react to their students' posts, or comment on their own linked students' posts.

Editing Students included within 1:1 Spaces:

  1. Click Spaces

  2. Click the 3 grey dots on the Space box

  3. Click Edit Students

  4. Check the checkbox to the left of students' names to add or remove students from the Space

  5. Click Save

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