Padlet privacy options
When you create a padlet, you can choose a privacy setting to control who can access it. Learn more about each privacy setting to decide which is best for your padlet.
Accessing the privacy settings
You can access your privacy settings by opening the Share menu of any padlet.
Privacy settings
Secret: The padlet is only accessible to the creator of the padlet and any user who has the link. The link will be hidden from Google and public areas of Padlet. To share Secret padlets with others, the owner must invite them through the Share menu.
Secret - Password: The padlet is password protected. The padlet is not searchable, and you need the link to the padlet and the password to access it.
Secret - Log in: Anyone with the link can access the padlet, but they must be logged into their Padlet account. Aside from this extra layer of security, comments and posts will display their author's names when this feature is enabled.
Public: The padlet will show up in Google searches and be displayed on your public profile.
Org/Team only: The padlet can only be accessed by licensed members of your organization or team, and they will be forced to log into their account to access.
Org/Team only in a Team Gold or Padlet for Schools account takes the place of the Secret - Log in option. This is because Org/Team only requires you to be logged in anyway and keeps the padlet within the account -- they're essentially the same.
Display in team dashboard
If you choose the Org/Team only privacy option, you can also choose to display your padlet in the organization or team dashboard. If you enable this feature, your padlet will appear in everyone's dashboard. If you do not want everyone in your organization to see your padlet, you should turn this feature OFF.
Visitor permissions
Once you choose your privacy, you can also select your 'Visitor permissions.' These dictate whether visitors can read, write on, or edit the padlet.
No access: This will only allow the creator of the padlet access. If anyone should need access to your padlet or you would like a select few people to interact on the padlet, these users will not be permitted unless you invite them as a collaborator.
Reader: If the 'Visitor permissions' is set to Reader, visitors can read others' posts, comment and add reactions (if these options are enabled). Readers will not be allowed to create new posts.
Writer: With Writer permissions enabled, users can do everything a Reader can do but they can also make new posts.
Moderator: Moderators can do everything a Reader and Writer can do with the added benefit of editing capabilities. This means they can change things such as wallpaper, format, title, etc. Approving and rejecting posts are another advantage of Moderator permissions.
Admin: Once a user is added as a collaborator you can give them their own special Visitor permissions from the dropdown menu. All of the permissions are the same as listed in this article except for one additional permission: Admin.
Admins have the same editing permissions as the owner/creator of the padlet - including inviting other collaborators and the capability to delete the padlet.
FAQs
Why can't people post on my padlet?
I want my padlet set so that no one can add posts except for two other people. How can I set this up?
I invited a user to my Secret-password padlet as a collaborator. Why didn't they have to put in the password to access it? Is my padlet still protected?
I have my padlet's 'Link privacy' set to Secret-password. Some users are able to bypass the password. Why? Is my padlet still protected?
*Collaborators you've invited via the 'Add a collaborator' field
*Owner of an individual padlet
*Owners of a Team/Classroom library
*Admins in a Team library
*Teachers in a Classroom library
Makers and Contributors (in a Team library) and Students (in a Classroom library) will still need to enter the password to have access to the padlet.