Controlling access to your course or project site from Site Info

Note: To complete the procedures in this document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. To view a list of permissions associated with a given role, see Permissions, roles, and tools. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and Roles: Overview.

To control access to your course site or project site, follow these steps:

  1. In your site's menubar, click Site Info.

  2. Click Manage Access.

  3. Under "Global Access", you may choose from the following:

    • For project sites only, you may choose to keep your site private (click the radio button next to Private) or you may select Display my site in the directory, and share files I select.
    • If you wish to make your course or project site broadly accessible, click the checkbox next to Can be joined by anyone with authorization to log in. Next to "Role for people that join site:", select the appropriate role for all the users who may join your site.

      For more information about roles, see Participant roles.

  4. Click Update.