Interact with Content

Thrive offers several interactive tools that let users engage with learning content. These features make it easy to track, share, and collaborate on materials.

You can interact with any piece of content in Thrive in the following ways:

Like Content

Click Likes (♡) to show your appreciation of a piece of content. This helps signal valuable content to other users.

Manage Access and Share

Once published, you can control visibility and distribution directly from the content toolbar using the Visibility & Share (👁) and Share icons.

Visibility and Permissions

Click Visibility & Share (👁) to manage who can see the item.

• Switch between Limited access for specific groups or Public for everyone.

• Add to user’s recommended content: Add the item to a user’s recommended content list.

• Sharing options: Select whether everyone can re-share the content or if sharing is restricted to admins and authors.

Share Content

Click Share to send the content to other users.

• Send with: Search for users or audiences in the search bar to notify them of the content. Sharing a limited access item automatically grants access to the recipient.

• Click Copy link to content to copy a direct link to the content for external use, such as email.

Click Send to share.

Pin Content

Click Pin (📌︎) to save content to your personal Pinned items section. Pinned items serve as a quick-access bookmark for important or frequently used resources.

To view your pinned items, click the Pin icon (📌︎) in the upper-right corner of the screen.

Report Content

If you encounter an issue or believe the content needs attention, click flag (🏳).

Users typically report content for reasons such as:

• Reporting a technical issue like a broken link

• Notifying administrators of incorrect information

• Suggesting the content needs further review

To report an item of content:

1. Click flag on the content item.

   

2. In Why do you want to report this content?, select the reason for reporting – for example, inappropriate, incorrect, or outdated content.

3. In Comment, enter details about the issue to help admins understand and resolve it.

4. Click Confirm.

A notification is sent to your site admins to let them know the content was reported.

Download Content

If the content creator has made the resource available to download, you will see a download icon (⤓). Click it to save the content directly to your device.

Comment on Content

Engage in discussions or ask questions directly related to the content:

• Enter the comment in the Share your thoughts… box under the content.

• Tag other users in your comment by typing @ followed by their name. This automatically notifies them of the conversation.

Rate Content

When Content Rating is enabled, learners see a Rate this content prompt at the end of any Content Creator item.

They choose a score from one to five stars, and can also add a short optional note on what made the content useful or what would improve it. Select Save note to submit, or Not now to skip the note and save the star rating only.

Learners can return to any content item to update their rating or note at any time.

View Ratings

Admins and content authors can view ratings on any content item’s Activity tab.

1. Open the content item.

2. Select the Activity tab, then select Ratings.

The Ratings view shows:

• A star distribution chart

• Average rating and total ratings count

• A chronological list of every rating, including the learner’s name, star score, date, and note, where one was left

Filter the list by star rating or by With a note to focus on specific feedback.

Note:

Ratings and notes are only visible to admins and the content’s author – never to other learners.

Things to Know

• Turning the toggle off hides the rating prompt and stops collecting new ratings, but doesn’t delete existing ones. Ratings reappear if the feature is switched back on.

• Ratings aren’t used in search ranking or content recommendations – they’re a feedback signal for admins and authors only.

Link Content

Linking related pieces of content together helps users discover relevant material without having to search for it themselves – for example, pointing from an overview article to a deeper how-to guide, or grouping a video alongside its supporting reading.

1. Go to a piece of content and scroll down to Linked Content.

2. Click + Add Content.

3. In the search bar that appears, search for the content you want to link. You can link multiple items.

4. After selecting all the content, click Update.

The selected items now appear under Linked Content, helping users navigate to related resources.

Note:

By default, only admins can link content together. To let other users do this too, turn on Allow users to link content in Configure > Content > Settings.