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Personal links
The link that turns a learner into a name on your analytics.
One link each. Never one link for the class.
What they are
The class page's instruction is the whole idea: create personal links for this class, then send each student their own link. Handles on slips are labels only — they do not grant access.
Create links makes one link per learner. The page is explicit that iframes and embeds use the same link, so a learner does not need a different one for embedded work.
Send each learner only their own. A personal link is the credential: whoever opens it is treated as that learner until they set a password, and a class-wide link defeats the entire point of having a class.
Purpose is only the landing place
Purpose offers General (home), Whiteboard, Ladder and Delivery. Two more exist — Virtual Lab and Workshop object — minted from those products' own share dialogs.
The hint corrects the natural assumption: purpose only chooses where the student lands after they click. The session then covers home, whiteboard, ladders, deliveries and embeds until the link expires or you revoke it.
So a link created with the Whiteboard purpose is not restricted to whiteboards. Choose the purpose that saves the learner a click, not the one that fences them in.
Ladder and delivery purposes ask for a Destination token — the ladder or delivery the learner should land on.
Expiry
Set a duration in Months, Days and Hours, or use a preset: 2 hours, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month. Or tick This link does not expire.
The hint on the never-expires tick gives the rule of thumb: the student can reuse the same link until you revoke it, and a short expiry is better for exams.
| Situation | Sensible expiry |
|---|---|
| An exam this afternoon | 2 hours |
| Homework due Friday | 1 week |
| A term's ongoing work | 1 month, renewed |
| A long-running class where learners keep their link | No expiry |
Getting them out
Download CSV takes the links as a file, which is how they reach a mail merge, a learning platform or a printed set. Print slips prints the handles and aliases three to a page.
The practical pattern in a classroom: print slips for the handles, and hand each learner their own link by whatever channel your school already uses for individual messages.
There is no class QR code
QR codes belong to the whiteboard share dialog, and a tracked class board refuses to offer one. The message says so: this board is tracked, so share personal links from the class page instead of this generic URL or QR code.
That refusal is deliberate. A QR code on the projector is a single link that everybody scans, and everything done through it is anonymous. If a class board is showing that message, the answer is personal links rather than a workaround.