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Personal account: Privacy

Overview

Customize your account’s level of privacy to determine who can review the following content associated with your account:

  • Profile

  • Updates

  • Media albums

  • Groups

  • Courses

  • Badges

  • Email

  • Portfolios

  • Blog

  • Messaging

Manage privacy settings

  • Depending on the settings at your organization, access to content areas may vary within Privacy Settings.

  • By default, non-faculty users do not have the ability to connect, and student-to-student messaging is disabled.

  1. Click your name and then select Settings.

  2. From your account, select Privacy Settings.

  3. Click a cell to allow or remove content access for the user. Options may vary depending on your account type. Cells with lock icons denote thresholds set by your organization. Review the Privacy settings details table for more information.

Privacy settings details

Users

Details

Everyone

Anyone with access to the Internet can access the feature, including non-Schoology members worldwide.

Schoology users

Anyone logged in to Schoology can access the feature, including Schoology users in other schools.

Organization

Anyone in your organization can access the feature.

School

Any users in the same school with which you are associated can access the feature. If you are in multiple schools, users can see features marked at the school privacy level in all buildings with which you are associated.

Connections

Only users with whom you’re connect can access the feature.

No one

The feature is hidden from everyone.

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