Once you've finished creating your scenario, the next step is to share it with others so they can view and complete it. In this article, you'll learn how to control the access settings for your scenario and how to share it.
Availability
The Scenario editor is available on all user accounts. However, only select subscription plans allow you to share scenarios:
- Educational accounts: sharing scenarios requires a School/Organizational license. Individual Teacher accounts cannot share scenarios.
- Business accounts: sharing scenarios requires an Enterprise license.
If your license doesn't support sharing scenarios, please contact our team here, and we can provide you with trial access.
Scenario visibility settings
To adjust the scenario's visibility, click the 'Manage access' button and select the desired option next to 'Visibility'. There are three scenario visibility settings you can use:
- Public scenarios can be accessed by anyone. The viewer does not need a ThingLink account, but their progress will not be tracked.
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Organization scenarios can be accessed by any user connected to your ThingLink organizational license. The viewer will need to sign into their ThingLink account to view the scenario.
- Private scenarios are available only to users who have been added to the scenario (see below). The viewer will need to sign into their ThingLink account to view the scenario.
All scenarios are private by default.
You can change the scenario visibility setting and add learners or co-editors using the ‘Manage access’ button in the upper-right corner:
Scene visibility settings
Note: Scenario visibility settings and scene visibility settings are independent.
Changing the visibility setting of your scenario does not change the visibility settings of the ThingLink scenes/content you used to create the scenario. If your scenario is public but your viewers are getting an error saying that the content is private, check if you need to update the content visibility settings.
Adding learners and collaborators
You can add specific users or groups from your ThingLink organization as viewers, editors, or administrators using the 'Manage access' menu - please see the interactive image above.
- Viewers will be able to view the scenario if it’s shared via a link or an embed regardless of the scenario visibility setting.
- Editors will be able to see and edit the scenario on their Scenarios page.
- Administrators will be able to see and edit the scenario and add other users.
Note! The Scenarios page displays only scenarios you can edit, i.e. scenarios that you created and scenarios where you are an editor or an administrator. If you give a user viewer access to the scenario, they will not see it on their scenarios page - they'll need to access the scenario via a link, as an embed or on a ThingLink Landing Page.
Sharing scenarios
You can share scenarios with your learners by embedding them or sharing a link to the scenario. Both can be done by opening the scenario and clicking the blue ‘Share’ button on the top right.
Sharing a link
You can share scenarios via a direct link, e.g. https://www.thinglink.com/view/scenario/1897313231555264998.
Note that if the scenario is set to 'Private' or 'Organization' visibility setting and the user is not logged into their ThingLink account, they will be asked to log in first.
Embedding scenarios
You can embed scenarios using iframe embed code. Simply click the 'Share' button, copy the code then add it to your website. Embedded scenarios look like this:
Here's a sample embed code you can try with your website/LMS:
<iframe width="960" height="720" src="https://www.thinglink.com/view/scenario/1897313231555264998" type="text/html" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen scrolling="no"></iframe>
Note that if the scenario is set to 'Private' or 'Organization' visibility setting and the user is not logged into their ThingLink account, they will be asked to log in first.
View in VR
You can view the scenario in virtual reality by copying a link or sharing a short link for easier access on VR headsets. Learn more about VR here.
Next steps
Once your learners go through the scenario you've shared, you can check their results using scenario statistics.
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