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# Inviting users

<mark style="color:$primary;">**Outcome**</mark>\
You invite a user to a space, either to a specific instance with a non-administrative role or to the whole space as an Administrator.

<mark style="color:$primary;">Before you start</mark>

* You hold the **Space Administrator** role in the space (the creator of a space automatically has this role).
* You have the email addresses of the users you want to invite.
* You have decided what to invite them to - an individual instance, a shared instance, or the whole space as Administrator.

Inviting a user to a Nuvolos space follows the same click-flow regardless of who you are inviting and why. This page documents the mechanic; the role-specific framing - what you invite people for, whether they get an individual or shared instance, what role to assign - is covered in the role-specific documents.

### The procedure

{% stepper %}
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Navigate to the space (course or project) you want to invite the user to.
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From the sidebar, click the More options menu (⋯) next to the selected Space name, choose **Invite Users**.
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Choose between the two invitation options (see below).
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For Option 1, additionally choose whether to invite to an existing shared Instance or create individual Instances per invitee.
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Choose the invitation method (invite link or email).
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Click **INVITE**.
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### Invitation options

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th valign="top"></th><th valign="top"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Option</td><td valign="top">What it does</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Option 1 - User Invitation</td><td valign="top">Invites the user to a specific instance with a non-administrative role. You pick the instance and the role (typically Instance Editor).</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Option 2 - Administrator Invitation</td><td valign="top">Invites the user as a Space Administrator with full privileges across the entire space. They can see all instances, invite further users, and create new instances.</td></tr></tbody></table>

Individual instances are typical for course students. Shared instances are typical for group members and co-authors on a research project.

### Invitation methods

* **Invite link** - share a URL; anyone who clicks it joins. Easiest for larger cohorts.
* **Email -** enter specific email addresses. Better for targeted invitations.

{% hint style="warning" %}
When inviting users who already have a Nuvolos account, use the email address listed under their name in the Members list of any space they are already in. If you send the invitation to a different address, they will not be able to accept it with their existing account - they will be forced to create a new one.
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### Role-specific notes

This page covers only the mechanical click-flow. For role-specific applications:

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{% tab title="🎓 For instructors" %}
See [How-to › For Instructors › Invite students](/how-to-guides/workflows-for-instructors/invite-students.md) for cohort-scale invitations with individual instances per student, and [How-to › For Instructors › Invite teaching assistants and co-instructors](/how-to-guides/workflows-for-instructors/invite-tas.md) for Administrator invitations.
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{% tab title="📖 For students " %}
Students typically don't invite other users. The exception is when a student Space Administrator on a group project needs to invite an additional group member; the procedure is the same as above.
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{% tab title="🔬 For researchers" %}
See [How-to › For Researchers › Invite collaborators](/how-to-guides/workflows-for-researchers/invite-collaborators.md) for Administrator vs. Instance Editor decisions for co-authors, and [How-to › For Researchers › Invite an external reviewer](/how-to-guides/workflows-for-researchers/inviting-a-reviewer.md) for the snapshot-and-Instance-Editor pattern for journal reviewers.
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