Padlet is an innovative platform that facilitates communication between teachers and students and works as an online notice board or an assessment tool.

Faculty have the ability to customize their own platforms and add numerous media resources like videos, images, helpful links, a classroom newsletter, fun classroom updates, lesson material, answers to questions, and more. As a classroom bulletin board, students can use it as a reference for a topic or look back at content, keep up to date with school events, or access it as a class document hub.

It is a one-stop sharing platform between students and faculty; offering cooperative creation, high levels of security and privacy, and plenty of sharing options.

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1 Logging into Padlet for the First Time
2 Creating and Sharing a Padlet
- 2.1 Creating a Padlet
- 2.2 Sharing Your Padlet
  - 2.2.1 Setting Permissions for Your Padlet
  - 2.2.2 Sharing Your Padlet Link
- 2.3 Embedding a Padlet into Blackboard
- 2.4 Related articles

Logging into Padlet for the First Time

Navigate to fairfielduniversity.padlet.org (NOT padlet.com) or the specific Padlet link you’ve been provided. (If you see the You shall not pass! message, click Log in and retry to get to the login screen.)
At the Login to Fairfield University screen, choose Log in with Microsoft.
Enter your Fairfield University email address and click Next. You will be redirected to the Fairfield University Single Sign On page. Enter your NetID and password and click Sign In.

For this first login only, you will be asked to give permission for Microsoft to provide information to Padlet. Click XXX to Accept this permission.
You may also see a message from Microsoft asking if you want to Stay signed in. You will want to check the Don’t show this again box and click Yes, especially if you plan to embed Padlets into Blackboard.
You will now find yourself at your Padlet Dashboard.

Creating and Sharing a Padlet

Creating a Padlet

You can now add content directly from Padlet to your Blackboard courses.

Choose Make a Padlet to create a new board.
Select a template as a starting point. If you select Blank Board, you will then have the option to choose a Format. Wall is a popular choice among faculty here at Fairfield.

On the right-hand side of the screen a window will appear that will allow you to set - among other things - your Padlet title, description, (and if you scroll down further) wallpaper/background, font, and whether you want to allow comments on each posting.

Once you close the Modify window, you’re ready to create the first post on your new Padlet. Just click the pink + sign button and a note will appear.

Sharing Your Padlet

Setting Permissions for Your Padlet

By default, all new Padlets are set to be private and require the creator to either share them with specific individuals or set institution-wide privileges that allow others to interact them. Once you create a Padlet, you can set permissions in the following way.

Click on the Share button in the upper right-hand side of your Padlet.
From the menu that appears, you will first want to look at the Privacy settings and decide what you want viewers to be able to do with this Padlet. Click Change Privacy to see the settings that are available to you.

Secret means that the Padlet is not discoverable, but that anyone who has the direct link to the board can get to it.
Secret - Password requires you to create a single password that you distribute to anyone who you want to be able to get to this Padlet.
Org wide means that anyone from fairfield.edu who logs in to Padlet can get to it.

You can also change visitor permissions. By clicking the drop-down menu to the right of Visitor permissions at the bottom of Change Privacy panel, you will set the level of access your visitors will have to this Padlet.

Reader: Can access the board and read posts. Cannot edit or add new posts.
Commenter: Can view and comment on posts. Cannot edit and add new posts.
Writer: Can write new posts and comment on other’s posts.
Moderator. Can write, edit, and approve posts.

Sharing Your Padlet Link

At this point, you DO NOT have to do anything else besides choosing these permissions and saving your settings.

Click on the Share button in the upper right-hand side of your Padlet.
From the panel that appears, click the Copy to Clipboard button, the paste the link where you want to share it - email, Blackboard, etc.

Sharing to Blackboard

If you are sharing this Padlet in Blackboard, consider using the Padlet LTI.

Embedding a Padlet into Blackboard

Navigate to the Course Content. Hover over the Purple Plus and choose Content Market.
You will be taken to Content Market. Search alphabetically for Padlet and click on it.

3. You will be taken to Padlet and see your collection of Padlets. Choose the one that you wish to embed.

You will be returned to Blackboard and see a notice to close the current window and refresh the previous (folder) page.
Once completed, you’ll see your Padlet appearing in Blackboard. Students can simply click on the link and have it open the Padlet, where they can add their own posts. (If you’ve turned Attribution on in the Padlet settings, students’ names will automatically appear on their posts.)

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