Content Authors

In one line: Content Authors are helper accounts inside your subscription — you decide exactly which folders, games, and powers each one gets.

Works on: Home/School Plus and Business plans — up to 5 content authors.

You might call it: student accounts, collaborator accounts, TA access, helper accounts.

Content Authors let you manage permissions and control over your games. Grant each person privileges to create, play, share, edit, print, and delete games — and specify exactly which folders and games they can touch. Perfect for students building games as an assignment (create and edit, no delete), a co-teacher tending a shared library, or an aide running games at events.

How to add a Content Author

1. Navigate to the Account page and go to the Content Author tab.

2. Click + Add Content Author.

3. Enter the email address of your content author and click Next.

4. Choose to create a password for your content author — or send them a link so they can create their own.

5. Click Submit.

You can click the icon to view content authors’ passwords. Use the tool to create a new password for a user or send them a reset link.

*Passwords you set stay visible and manageable on your Account page. Passwords authors set themselves stay hidden from you — viewing and managing are disabled; reset links only.

Give them exactly enough power (Profile Authorizations)

Each profile controls three things:

• Folders — access to only the folders you select.
• Games — choose which individual games a content author can access.
• Actions — allow or deny Create New Games, Edit Games, Print Games, and Delete Existing Games.

Click Edit Profile Authorizations to configure profile access.

Mix and match per person. Other teachers might keep delete rights; students get create and edit with delete disabled. Check the boxes to authorize access. In the screenshot below, access to a specific folder, its games, and editing and printing is authorized for the selected profile.

Use the tool to rename profiles and the tool to save them. Below, three reusable profiles with different access authorizations:

Make sure to Save your profiles when you’re done.

Assign profiles to Content Authors

Select a profile from the dropdown menu to set the access settings of each content author.

Save your Content Author list

Press Save as pdf and your list downloads automatically as a PDF — emails, the passwords you set, and each author’s profile type.

How do Content Authors access my games?

Content authors log in with their own Factile account details. If you created their password, they use that one. Once logged in, they choose to enter their own account — or yours, as a content author. Inside yours, they see only the games, folders, and settings their profile allows.

*Content author vs. sharing: sharing gives someone else’s account access to a game, while a content author is an account you own and fence in. Content authors can also copy games between their account and yours — great for “build it in your account, hand it to me.”