Collaboration
Course sharing lets you invite specific people, by email, to open one of your courses in the Slate Builder. You choose whether each person can view the course or edit it alongside you. Anyone can share a course to view for free; collaborative editing requires a paid plan.
This is different from the other two ways Slate shares courses:
- Preview Links and tracked sharing send the finished course to learners and stakeholders. They view the published course, not the editable one, and never see the Builder.
- Teams are a different model again: a shared, centralized workspace for a whole group, rather than direct access to one of your courses. See Course sharing vs a team workspace below.
Who can share a course
Section titled “Who can share a course”You can share a course when you are its owner. On a team course, the team owner or a team admin can share it too. If you do not own the course, the People with access controls will not be available.
How to share a course
Section titled “How to share a course”- Open the course and click Publish in the toolbar to open the Share dialog.
- Under People with access, enter the person’s email address.
- Choose Can view or Can edit from the access menu.
- Click Invite.
The person receives an email with a link to the course. If they do not have a Slate account yet, the email invites them to create one; the course is waiting for them in Shared with me once they sign in. People you have invited but who have not opened the course yet show an Invited badge in the list.
Access levels
Section titled “Access levels”Each person you share with has one of two access levels.
| Access level | What they can do | Plan needed |
|---|---|---|
| Can view | Open the course in the Builder and read every lesson. They cannot change anything. | Free, for everyone |
| Can edit | Open and edit the course in the Builder: change content and add, remove, and reorder lessons. | Standard or higher, for everyone editing |
Sharing a course to view is free for everyone. Granting Can edit requires a paid plan (Standard or higher) on your side, and editing only works for recipients who are also on a paid plan.
You can still give edit access to someone on the Free plan. They will view the course until they upgrade, and editing unlocks automatically once they do, with no need to re-share.
Managing access
Section titled “Managing access”The People with access list shows everyone you have shared the course with. From there you can:
- Change a person’s access level - switch them between Can view and Can edit at any time using the access menu next to their name.
- Remove access - select the remove (X) control next to a person to revoke their access immediately.
To keep sharing fair, there is a daily limit on how many new people you can invite. If you reach it, you can invite more the next day.
Course sharing vs a team workspace
Section titled “Course sharing vs a team workspace”Both let people work on courses together, but they solve different problems. Course sharing is direct: you own the course and grant someone access to it. A team workspace is a shared, centralized space that a whole group works in together.
| Course sharing | Team workspace (Pro) | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Giving one or two people access to a specific course | A group building and managing many courses together over time |
| Who owns the course | You do - it stays in your account | The team - every course is centralized in one shared workspace |
| Billing | Nothing to set up; sharing to view is free | One owner manages a single subscription and everyone’s seats |
| Adding or removing people | Grant or revoke access to a course at any time | The owner assigns and reassigns seats as members come and go; their courses stay with the team |
| What’s shared | Only the course you choose | The whole workspace: courses, shared links, media, and pooled AI credits and storage |
In short, course sharing keeps a course in your hands and lends out access you can pull back at any time. A team workspace pools everything under one account, so courses and resources stay with the team even as people come and go.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Shared with me - where courses other people share with you appear.
- Teams - an ongoing shared workspace for a whole group, with pooled credits and storage.
- Preview Links - share the finished course with learners and stakeholders.