Sharing

Is your story ready? One link is all it takes to have it read. The Share button in the action bar opens everything you need.

Who can open your story

When it is created, a story is private. The Share window then opens on a switch that is off, and the link is not offered to anyone yet.

On a private story, the switch is off.

Turn it on, and the label becomes Anyone holding the link. Your story’s address works from that moment on.

Sharing turned on: the link appears, ready to be copied.

This setting lives here, and nowhere else. So you close a story again where you opened it, by turning off the same switch.

A link, or a QR code

Once the switch is on, two tabs appear.

• Link shows your story’s address. The Copy button puts it on the clipboard. You then hand it to whoever you like, by message, by email, on a website.
• QR Code turns that same address into a code to scan, for a poster, a paper handout or a projection in class.

Those two only make sense once sharing is active. As long as it is not, there is nothing to hand out. The Open player link, on the other hand, stays there in both states. It opens your story in a new tab, exactly as a reader will see it.

A private story opens for you

As long as you are signed in, your own link serves you your story, private or not. That is handy for rereading it in the real player before you share it. Anyone without read access gets an unavailable message instead.

The link shows the last save

If some changes are not saved yet, the window tells you so. It also warns you when Validation reports critical problems: the link will work, but the story will not play from end to end.

Note

A story shared by link is unlisted. It does not show up in search engines, and only the people you give the link to can read it.

What about achievements?

Achievements do not travel on the sharing link. They are stripped from the story sent to the reader. You see them in the preview from the editor, and they work in signed-in contexts, such as a class session. See Achievements.

In class

With Moiki EDU, a story can also be attached to a workshop to work on it with students. The Workshops entry in the action bar lists the ones that rely on it. See Workshops.

On the reader’s side there is nothing to install. The link opens in the browser. See Playing a story.