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title: "Manage a Structure and Audience"
slug: "structures-overview"
tags: ["Audience Management"]
updated: 2026-10-28T15:43:42Z
published: 2026-10-28T15:43:42Z
canonical: "docs.thrivelearning.com/structures-overview"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.thrivelearning.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Manage a Structure and Audience

**Once a Structure or Audience is created, you can manage its membership, delegate its administration, track assignments, and review or change its settings.**

Select a Structure or Audience to open its detail view, where you can manage it using the following tabs:

- **Audiences** (Structure only): Create and manage the Audiences in this Structure. See Create an Audience.
- **Members**: View the users included in the Structure or Audiences.
- **Admins** (Structure only): Add Admins to the Structure and assign them permissions across three roles. See [Structure Admin Permissions](/v1/docs/structure-admin-permissions-breakdown).
- **Content**: View the content shared with this Structure or Audience.
- **Assignments**: Create and track assignments – see [Creating Assignments](/v1/docs/structures-overview#creating-assignments1).
- **Skills** (Audience only): Assign skills, with current and target levels, to every member of the Audience – see Adding Skills to an Audience.
- **Settings**: Edit the Structure or Audience details, or delete it.

## Delete a Structure or Audience

### Structure

1. On the **Structures** screen, click the ellipsis icon (**⋮**) in the **Actions** column, then select **Delete structure**.
2. In the **Delete structure?** popup, type **Delete** into the text box, then click **Delete**.

The Structure is permanently deleted. Deleting a Structure removes members’ access to any assignments or content shared with it. This can’t be undone.

> [!NOTE]
> Note:
> 
> A Structure can’t be deleted while it still contains Audiences. Delete all of the Structure’s Audiences first, then try again.

### Audience

1. Open the Audience, then go to its **Settings** tab.
2. In the panel on the right, select **Delete audience**.
3. Type **Delete** into the text box, then click **Delete audience**.

The Audience is permanently deleted. Deleting an Audience removes members’ access to any assignments or content shared with it. This can’t be undone.

## Creating Assignments

The **Assignments** tab, for both a Structure and an Audience, lists its existing assignments with their duration, recurrence, and a delete action for each.

To create an assignment:

1. Click **+ Create assignment**.
2. In the **Content** section, click **+ Add content** to select existing content to assign. You can search by content title or tag.
3. Choose when it’s due:
  - **Duration**: Enter a number and select a unit – **Days**, **Weeks**, **Months**, or **Years** – that learners have to complete it. This window is relative, not fixed: a member who joins later gets the same amount of time from when they join, not from when you created the assignment.
  - **Specific date**: Use the calendar picker to set a fixed due date instead.
4. (Optional) Turn on **Recurrence** to reassign the content on a repeating schedule, and enter how often.

> [!NOTE]
> Note:
> 
> Recurrence is calculated from the date each learner completes the assignment, so recurring due dates may vary between learners.
5. Click **Create assignment**.

Completing the assigned content automatically marks the assignment as **Completed**.

#### Key Things to Know

- Moving an Audience to a different Structure may change its membership. If the Audience contains users who aren’t part of the new Structure, those users are removed. Membership updates may take up to 24 hours.
- Structure rules function like Smart Audiences and may take up to 24 hours to update when modified.
- Manual Audiences moved to a Structure are updated automatically based on the Structure’s membership rules.