Learn the key differences between collaborators and their access levels to help facilitate efficient collaboration.
Not everyone has the same collaboration needs inside MURAL. To help facilitate efficient collaboration among collaborators, we have different user types: admins, members, guests, and visitors.
Here's how it's broken down:
Administrators manage the workspace. They have full access and control and can create, modify and edit all of the workspace settings.
Members are core team members or facilitators that have full collaboration access. Members can:
Guests are external stakeholders, partners and clients outside of your company's domain. If you are on a MURAL Plus or Enterprise plan, then you can invite guests to collaborate without them using a license. Guests are able to:
As projects come to a close and new projects get going, your core collaborators might change, too. Learn how admins can switch a user from guest to member.
Here's how workspace admins can switch a user from guest to member:
Hi, I'm Daniela. Collaboration can have many different forms, and this is why in MURAL We have three different types of collaborators. First, we have our members. Members are people within your company domain, and they can own and access as much content as was assigned by the company admin.
Next, we have guests. Guests are people outside of your company domain that can also collaborate with you in your murals. Their capabilities are a little bit more limited, though they cannot duplicate your murals or export them. They cannot invite other people to collaborate, and they can certainly not manage your content.
Finally, we have visitors, and visitors are people that you invite for one time only. You send them a link. They don't have to sign in, and they will come in as visiting animals so they will come in anonymously. They will be prompted to add their names, but that's optional.
So this is best for one time events, maybe for research participants or workshop participants. And after you're done with all of your commitments, you can always choose to reset those links to revoke the access as well. So knowing what type of collaborator you need for each particular mural will allow you to collaborate better.
Manage your virtual office space in MURAL.
Your workspace is like your virtual office that holds all of your work in MURAL. When you sign up for MURAL, you can create a new workspace or join existing workspaces with your team. These workspaces contain work across different projects that are organized into rooms.
When you create a workspace, you’re the admin of that workspace and can adjust key settings and features for your organization.
When you sign up for MURAL, you can check out your company’s existing workspaces to see if your team is collaborating together. You can join some workspaces instantly, while some will send a request to your company’s admin for approval. Alternatively, you can also search for workspaces manually by clicking Find more at the bottom.
Workspace admins can set the visibility of the workspace by going into workspace settings. Here’s how it’s done:
When you sign up on MURAL, you can join an existing workspace or create a new one. All newly created workspaces have a 30-day free trial period.
To create a new workspace:
You can add collaborators to your entire workspace. Here’s how you can do that
You can also add a personalized message with the invite and click Send invitation(s)
You can be a part of one or multiple workspaces at a moment. Switching between workspaces is easy. Here’s how you can do that:
Just like in a real-life office building, there are common areas and private spaces. These are called rooms. There are open rooms and private rooms in a MURAL workspace.
Here’s how you can check out your rooms:
Hi, I'm Daniela, let's talk about workspaces. A workspace is the virtual space where all of your work within MURAL will happen. So in other words, it's just like your office building.
In a normal scenario, you would only have one office building that you would go to. And within that office building, there would be different rooms that you can access. Some of them would be open office spaces that you can just go grab a mug, sit down and start working.
Some other spaces would be private would be meeting rooms that you would need to have been invited to in order to be able to go and collaborate in MURAL. Those are called open rooms in private rooms. So, if I exit my mural on the top left, up here, and I go back to the dashboard, you will see that I am in the MURAL Magic workspace.
So this is my new office building. No need to commute, just one click away. I don't even have to wear shoes. And then within that workspace, I will have private rooms.
These are the ones I'm invited to. I will have open rooms that anybody can just come in and collaborate. So now that we don't have to make all that small talk in the kitchen, there's a lot more time to create wonderful innovations. So let's get to work.
Keep all of your work related to a project together. Invite everyone to collaborate or keep content private.
Rooms are an efficient way of organizing murals for different projects. If the workspace is your office, then rooms will hold all of the work for your team with related murals. A workspace can contain several rooms, and each room can contain several murals. You can access your rooms in your workspace from your dashboard.
There are two major types: open and private rooms. With open rooms, every member of that workspace can access them. However, they need to be exclusively invited to private rooms. Here are various ways to access murals in a workspace. How to create rooms in MURAL:
You can rename and move rooms in MURAL. To rename a room:
To move the room:
Hi, I'm Daniela, let's talk about rooms. Rooms are an efficient way to organize your murals for different projects. They're very much like the folders in which you used to save your files except for their better.
A workspace can contain several different rooms and each room can contain several different murals. There are two different types of rooms. Open rooms are available to anybody who's a member of that workspace.
In order to access private rooms, however, you need to have been explicitly invited to it. So let me show you what that looks like in real life. We're going to exit my mural up here on the left. And now you'll see that I am in the MURAL Magic workspace.
Within this workspace, there are lots of rooms where it happens. There are private rooms and there are open rooms You can create new open rooms and new private rooms. So if I create a new open room like so, maybe for practice purposes, I will just assign it a name. And I will be ready to create a room.
Remember, these are open to anybody in the workspace. So maybe you want to add a little description of what that room is for. You can create the room. And then it will be available to anybody who wants to join, just like this one, where we have 25 people that can access all these contents.
If you go to a private room, however, you will see that there's only one member here and that's me. Yeah, I get to have my own room. And you need to be invited to be able to see these contents. In order to create a private room. The process is the same, you just go over to the plus sign and create a private room. So next time you're organizing your content, be mindful of where you store it.
When you have many murals to scroll through, you can find a specific mural quickly with search.
Don’t have the time to find murals by scrolling? The search option comes in handy. Here is a fancy way to search for murals in your workspace.
You can look for something specific inside the mural quickly. The find feature is at the top right-hand corner next to a question mark.
Here is a fancy way to search on MURAL
Hi, I'm Stefan. I'm here to show you how to search for murals at the workspace level at the room level and search for things within a mural itself. So right now, we're right now looking at all the URLs inside of the workspace, and there's plenty of murals to scroll through and look for. However, there's also a faster way to do it.
So, we have a search option in the top right hand corner, where you can now buy a keyword of murals. If you happen to know the name of the material that you're looking for. You just can't find it when you're scrolling through or don't have the time to scroll through and find it.
I can simply just use the keyword here and find the mural in the mix of all the murals that are in this workspace. So I'm going to see the top hit based on the keyword I've entered and I actually found what I was looking for, so I'm going to double click. It can be directed to the mural itself. Now that I found it.
Now that I'm inside of the mural, I'd like to look for something specific inside of this mural. So, I can see here, there's a lot going on inside of here. So it'd be really helpful if I can find something pretty quickly, because I really don't have a lot of time to search around this mural. In the top right hand corner, next to the question mark.
There's this fine feature, allowing you to filter the this mural for something specific, usually by keyword. So I recall on the team stand up that my colleague and Jim said something really interesting. So I'm actually going to just filter for Jim's sticky notes. So I can see here by the keyword that I've entered, I can now see all all areas and sticky notes that have this keyword in it and they're highlighted here on the mural.
So I can zoom in now, see where this space is that I wanted to look at. And then now closely read what are on these sticky notes that Jim left to jog my memory and recall what ideas that he had. You can also filter by a specific color inside of inside of this mural as well. So if you're not just searching by keyword, and did some color coordination, you can also filter by color. Hopefully that was helpful.
Decide who can access rooms and murals in your workspace with member and guest permissions.
On MURAL, people have different collaboration needs. This is why there are different user types to help in making sure that everyone enjoys efficient collaboration. Two user types that we have to discuss are members and guests. While members are usually core team members with full collaboration access, guests are slightly more restricted. So, here’s how to assign user types:
You can categorize by members, guests, and those that are yet to join your workspace but have been invited. The pending invitation section includes options to:
For members, you can give permission to create rooms, publish templates, become an admin, or remove members. These powers can only be accessed by an administrator on MURAL.
Guests are external stakeholders, partners and clients outside of your company's domain. Organizations who have Enterprise, Partner, or Education plans can give guests access to collaborate without losing a membership seat. If a guest does not log into your MURAL workspace for over two weeks, then MURAL automatically deactivates them from the workspace to make space for other guests.
If a deactivated guest logs in, they see a message that lets them know they can request access from the admin (or create their own new workspace). All workspace admins will receive an email notification letting you know when there is an active request.
Hello, I'm Stefan. I'm here to tell you about how to manage a workspace and the members in the workspace. So what we're looking at right now is a workspace.
On the left-hand side you can see the navigation menu, followed by private rooms and open rooms. And then the top left hand corner is the name of your workspace. And under the drop down menu, if you are an admin, you have the choice of being able to manage your members and the permissions inside of your workspace. So we're looking at all of your members in the workspace. We have them and you can also see them categorized out by all members, guests, and those that have yet to join the workspace but have been invited. In here, you have the ability to manage permissions.
You can look at the type of user, the date that they were invited or that they became a member or a guest. And you can also manage the permissions such as being able to create rooms, publish templates, seeing open rooms, promoted to become a workspace admin, and ultimately, maybe removing the member if they're no longer a part of the company.
The settings page gives you the ability to manage the experience of all of your users in this workspace. So you can change the name of the workspace from here. But most importantly, you can change how users or new users get invited in, what type of permission do you want them to have, and you can choose from four different options in terms of how your members can invite new users in and also sharing murals, sharing rooms.
What do you want the experience to be like here, and you have a few options to look at as well. All right, hopefully that was helpful. Take care.
Learn how to invite collaborators and set sharing permissions to protect your murals.
You can now invite any collaborator even outside of your workspace to see and edit your murals. They can join in without having to sign up and may choose to remain anonymous. You can invite them in two ways:
Same procedure as you learned above.
👉You can not invite visitors via email; only with a share link.
Collaborating and sharing is easy in MURAL. Here’s how you can share your murals:
From time to time, you may feel the need to change the permissions for your visitors or collaborators. Let’s take a look at default permissions for editors and viewers:
Editors can:
Viewers can:
To change the permissions for members:
Add an extra layer of security to your murals by password protecting them. You'll find this option under the Visitor link tab when you share a mural. Here’s how:
