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Share to Library, author credit and community scope
Put a question type in front of other teachers, on terms you choose.
Share the structure. Keep your name out of it if you want.
What sharing does
Share to Library offers a question type to the community catalogue, where other teachers can find and use it. A dialog headed Share to community catalogue? explains the consequences before anything happens.
Read it rather than clicking through. Sharing is not the same as making a copy available: it puts an object into a shared space with its own rules about copies, updates and removal.
Use, or build on
Two things a shared item can allow, and they are different.
| Setting | Means |
|---|---|
| Use only | Others can add it to a ladder, assign it or launch it. They do not get an authoring copy, and the generator stays on TeachForge. |
| Allow others to build on this (default off) | Others can take a copy and edit it. |
The catalogue is explicit with the people using an item: a type can be used in their ladder, or one concrete question taken into their bank, and the numbers on an adopted question stay fixed. A shared ladder's steps reference the catalogue types rather than becoming private copies.
Build-on is off by default and that default is correct. Turn it on when you want your work improved by others; leave it off when you want it used as written.
Author credit
Show my author credit on this item is unticked by default. Ticked, the item reads Shared by your handle — a short author credit set on your profile, and never your legal name.
If you have not set one, the panel says so and points you at your profile. Profile details covers where.
Changing a shared item
Once an item is in the catalogue you do not edit the live copy directly. Propose an update sends the change for review: an administrator approves it, the live object does not change until they do, and approval refreshes the same identifier rather than creating a second one.
That is what keeps a ladder somebody built on your type from breaking when you improve it.
Before you share
- Sample it several times and read the results. A bad parameter range is much more visible in somebody else's classroom.
- Check the description reads as guidance to a stranger rather than a note to yourself.
- Make sure nothing in it names your school, your class or a learner.
- Run teacher review once end to end.