Sharing and viewing scenarios

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. 

• Scenario visibility settings
• Publishing to the web
• Publishing to the Landing page
• Sharing and viewing in VR

Availability

The Scenario editor is available on all user accounts. However, only select subscription plans allow you to share scenarios:

• K-12 accounts: sharing scenarios requires a K-12 Enhanced or Staff Training license. K-12 Essential and Individual Teacher accounts cannot share scenarios.
• Higher Education accounts: sharing scenarios requires a College/School or Campus license. 
• Business/Public Sector accounts:  sharing scenarios requires a Create Enterprise, Elevate Starter or Elevate 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:

• 'Anyone with the link' scenarios can be accessed by anyone. The viewer does not need a ThingLink account, but their progress will not be tracked.
• 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:

From the same 'Manage access' view, you can assign the folder to a group. Learn more about assigning content to specific groups here.

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. To make sure all scenes within the scenario are public, open your scenario, click 'Share' → 'Synchronize privacy settings' and select 'Anyone with the link'.

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.

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.

Publishing to the web

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. 

Publish to the Landing page

If you are an admin user, you can add a scenario to your Landing page by hovering over the 'Landing page' button at the top and clicking 'Landing page settings' (cog icon). Scroll down to your playlists, click 'Edit' next to the playlist you want to update, then select 'Add scenario' and choose the scenario(s) you want to include.

Scenarios added to the Landing page will be shown to users according to their visibility settings. If your Landing page visibility is set to 'Organization', users must sign in to be able to view the page and its content.

Learn more about the Organizational landing pages here. 

Sharing and viewing 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.