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Collaborate Menu

How to control how others use and interact with your paper

Written by Holly

Clicking the " Collaborate " menu button:

Or pressing the hotkey N on your keyboard.

This opens up the collaboration settings menu. Here you can lock a paper, enable class mode, edit cursor settings or see a list of users currently connected to the bitpaper.

Locking a paper

You will see a little padlock icon on the collaborate menu button in the bottom left of the screen, and a toggle inside the collaborate settings menu that allows you to lock your paper.

When you lock the paper, other people will still follow your view and be able to see everything you do, but they will not be able to write, change boards, undo, delete, etc.

Locking a paper also stops people from editing it while you are offline.

Only the Paper owner can lock/unlock a Paper.
When you lock a paper, all other people who visit it will see an orange banner at the top saying that the paper is locked.

This is what would show when a user tries to open a locked paper.

Class Mode

When working with multiple users at once, you can enable this setting to hide all other users' cursors from each other. i.e., only your cursor will show to all other users. They can still see their own cursor, but not each other's.

This setting helps facilitate classes on BitPaper and is only available to the paper creator.

Cursor Settings

In Cursor Settings, you can:

  • Display name – Edit or delete your name (deleting it hides your name from other users)

  • Cursor colour – Choose a custom colour for your cursor

  • Show others' cursors – Toggle whether other users' cursors are visible on your screen

  • Show others' names – Toggle whether names appear on other users' cursors

User List

This section shows all browser tabs currently viewing this bitpaper, not just individual users. This means the same person can appear more than once (for example, if they have the bitpaper open in multiple tabs or on multiple devices).

Each entry in the list is displayed as follows:

  • Logged-in users – shown by their account display name

  • Guests – any tab where the viewer is not logged in

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