
🤝 3. Sharing & Collaboration in Depth (30 min)
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🎯 Targeted Sharing2
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🎯 Teachers Edit, Students Read – No Anonymous Access
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You know the read link and the write link from the introduction. Now you combine both deliberately - the most common real-world case:
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- colleagues should edit
- all students should read
- anonymous users should have no access
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Here's how:
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- Open the map share dialog via the blue share button.
- Choose Edit and enable the checkbox Access for registered users only - this link goes to your colleagues.
- Open the dialog again, choose Read without the checkbox - this link goes to the class.
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Individual boxes can be shared the same way: click the three dots on the box, then choose Link to box.
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Matching tutorials:
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🧩 Sharing Columns2
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🧩 Sharing Columns: Reading and Writing Mixed
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The most powerful sharing tool: one link that defines which columns are shown and which access right applies per column (read or edit).
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Here's how:
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- Click the blue share button and choose Share columns.
- Click Create new link.
- Click the columns: the first click means read, the second click edit, the third click removes the rights again.
- Then click Next, give the link a title, and optionally enable the login requirement.
- Finally click Create link and copy the link or the QR code – done.
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Tip: You can edit existing column links at any time - students keep the same link, only the rights change. Handy for weekly plans: unlock one more column each week without handing out new links.
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👥 Classes & School2
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👥 Distributing to Classes and the Whole School
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Instead of sending links one by one, distribute maps directly to your learning groups:
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Sharing with a group or class:
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- Click the blue share button, then Share map to class.
- Pick the group in the dropdown and set access to Read map or Edit map.
- Recipients find the map on their Received page.
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So group 1 can edit and group 2 can only read - simply share twice with different groups and different rights.
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For all staff and all students:
- In the map settings under Publish, choose My School (read). The map then appears for everyone on the My School page - without distributing any link.
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📁 Folders2
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📁 Folders: Collect, Distribute, Search
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Folders contain references to maps - the map stays where it is and can be saved in any number of folders at the same time. Other users' maps too.
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The key moves:
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- Create a new folder on the My Folders page.
- Add a map: inside the folder via Add map, by map link, or directly from an open map via the map menu with Add to folder.
- Folders can also be saved inside folders - for structures by subject, class, or school year.
- Every folder can be password-protected, released for My School, or placed in your public profile.
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The insider tip: The folder search scans all boxes of all maps in the folder. Collect your department's maps in one folder and find any material in seconds.
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🎉 Done
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🎉 Course Completed!
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You now command the full sharing repertoire: targeted links, column groups with mixed rights, distribution to classes, school release, and folder structures.
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Quick recap:
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- Link for everyone outside
- Group/class for your learning groups
- My School for the whole building
- Folders for collecting and finding
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With that, most sharing questions disappear from daily routine - and from the staff room.