5.2 Tutorial: Distributing Maps - Additional Options

✔️ At Edumaps, you can share a map quickly and easily via the blue share button.
✔️ However, you can also distribute specifically to selected groups and users. This sharing can also be revoked.
✔️ Content can also be partially shared with individual path groups.
✔️ You can also, as a teacher, make your maps available to your entire school with just one click.

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- You want to share your map for editing with teachers.
- You want to share your map for reading with your students.
- Anonymous users should have no access.
Teachers edit and students read
Setting:
1. Open the map-sharing dialog.
2. Click on "Edit map" and select "Access for registered users only".
3. Copy the link and distribute it to your colleagues.
4. Open the map-sharing dialog again.
5. Click on "Read map" and do not check "Access for registered users only".
6. Copy the link and distribute it to your students.
⚙ teacherstudent

2

- You only want to share one path of your map for reading or editing.
- Other users should still be able to see the entire map.
Share individual path
for reading or editing
Setting:
1. Click on the three dots next to the path.
2. Select “Link to path”.
3. Choose “Read” or “Edit”.
4. Activate “Hide other paths” in the dialog.
5. Copy the link and send it to the users who should only see the path.
⚙ pathsingle

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- You want to grant access to only one box in your map for reading or editing.
- Other users should still be able to see the entire map.
Share individual box
for reading or editing
Setting:
1. Click on the three dots next to the box.
2. Select “Link to the box”.
3. Choose “Read” or “Edit”.
4. Activate “Hide other boxes” in the dialog.
5. Copy the link and send it to the users who should only see the box.
⚙ boxsingle

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- You want to allow editing of your map. However, certain paths should be protected so they cannot be edited.
Protect individual paths from editing
Setting:
1. Click on the three dots by the path and select “Edit”.
2. In the path editor, activate “Protect path”. A lock icon will appear on the path.
3. Open the map-sharing dialog and send the link with editing rights.
⚙ protectpath

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- You want to make your map available for editing. However, certain boxes should be protected so that they cannot be edited.
Protect individual boxes from editing
Setting:
1. Click on the three dots on the box and select “Edit”.
2. In the box editor, enable “Protect box”. A lock icon will appear on the box.
3. Open the map sharing dialog and send the link with editing rights.
⚙ protectbox

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Special Case - Edit Group 1, Read Group 2
- Group 1 should be able to edit.
- Group 2 should only be able to read.
- The map should be distributed to both groups with the “Share to Class” function, so that the users can find the map under “Received Maps”.
Setting:
1. Click on the blue Share Map button and select “Share to Class”.
2. In the dropdown, select Group 1.
3. Set access to “Edit Map” and confirm.
4. Click on the blue Share Map button again and select “Share to Class”.
5. In the dropdown, select Group 2.
6. Set access to “Read Map” and confirm.
⚙ groups

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- You want to share your map for reading with all teachers and students of your school.
- Users who do not belong to your school should not have access.
- The map appears on the page “Maps of My School”.
Distribute to “My School (Read)”
Setting:
1. Open the map settings.
2. Under “Release”, select “My School (Read)” from the dropdown and click on “Save Map”.
⚙ myschool