As an employer who's a member of a company, you'll see the menu option "Portals" in the "Company" group of your main navigation. This section lists all portals for which your company has a portal pass.
When you have a portal pass, you company is able to access the portal's private content within their unique subdomain such as demoschool.riipen.com. This private content will include the experiences that portal only offers to its portal pass holding companies, unique workflows, and more.
Aside from accessing the portal's private content, you will also be able to promote your projects directly to that portal in their private marketplace putting your projects front and center within the portal and ensuring higher quality matches to the private experiences and better long lasting relationships with the educators inside that portal.
It's not necessary to have any portal passes to use Riipen as you can still operate within the open side of the platform, creating projects and matching with experiences, you just won't be able to access the elusive content portals have locked behind their portal passes.
General
Access
Your company will be able to obtain a portal pass in several different ways:
By application - portals can optionally allow companies to apply for a portal pass. Portals will configure a set of questions for you to answer about your company and then can determine whether or not to issue you a portal pass based on any sort of criteria they are looking to fulfill.
By invitation - portal administrators may already have a connection with you or your company from outside of Riipen and they can choose to invite you and your company directly into their portal with a portal pass invite. These invites will appear in your email notifications and you can simple accept them to obtain your portal pass.
Portal Customization
When are you working inside of a portal on their subdomain, you will see all of that portal's customization in place including, colors, brands / logos, and probably the most distinctive, their custom vocabulary. Portal can choose to customize specific key words, so where you see the word "Experience" in one portal, another might call it a "Course" or a "Program". The full list of customizable words by a portal are:
Company
Educator
Employer
Experience
Learner
Portal
Even if a portal has customized a word, the functionality behind it will remain the same.
You will also see portal customization when you receive notifications regarding content from a specific portal that your company has a portal pass for.
Private marketplaces
With a portal pass, you will have access to that portal's private marketplaces. When you click "Find experiences" within a portal, you will be shown that portal's private experiences that only portal pass holders have access to.
Similarly, when you create and publish a project within a portal, it will automatically be added to that portal's private marketplace of projects which only educators inside that portal have access to, thus making your projects more exclusive to that portal.
You can choose to post a project in one or many different portals if your company has multiple portal passes, and you can also always post your project to the open marketplace.
Scoping & Navigation
When you working inside of a portal, all of the content you will see, including your projects, teams, matches and more will be restricted to just content specific to that portal.
If your company has multiple portal passes, you can easily switch between portals or exit a portal and return to a non portal view.
If you are not working inside of a portal, you will see all of your content like projects, teams, matches and more, no matter which portal is happens to be affiliated with.
When you receive notifications such as emails notifications or SMS notificaitons, clicking any of the actions within the notification will automatically send you to the correct portal if your company has a portal pass for the portal that content is linked to, so you never have to worry about navigating between portals.
How to
Find portals
To find the portal your company has a portal pass for:
Click on "Portals" in the "Company content" section of the main navigation menu
Clicking on any of the portal in your portal passes list will automatically take you to that portal's private marketplace.
Apply for a portal pass
You may apply for a portal pass to a specific portal by taking the following steps:
Click on "Portals" under the "Company" group of the main navigation.
Click "Browse portals"
Find the portal you wish to obtain a portal pass for and click "Request portal pass"
Depending on the portal's configuration, you may have to answer questions defined by the portal as part of their portal pass application process.
Administrators of the portal will review your company and request and either approve this request and grant your company a portal pass, or decline the request.
If you do not see a "Request portal pass" button on a portal, the portal does not allow portal passes to be requested.
View a portal pass application
To view a portal pass application:
Click on "Portals" under the "Company" group of the main navigation.
Click on the "Applications" tab
Click any of the applications you wish to view
Cancel a portal pass application
To cancel a pending portal pass application:
Click on "Portals" under the "Company" group of the main navigation.
Click on the "Applications" tab
Click any of the applications you wish to cancel
Click the "Cancel" button
View your company's portal passes
To find the portal your company has a portal pass for:
Click on "Portals" in the "Company content" section of the main navigation menu
Clicking on any of the portal in your portal passes list will automatically take you to that portal's private marketplace.
Switch between portals
To switch between portals your company has portal passes for:
Click the portal switched in the top navigation menu (the top left corner)
Click the portal you want to switch to
Exit a portal
To exit a portal and return to a non portal view
Click the portal switched in the top navigation menu (the top left corner)
Click "Exit portal"
View a portal's private marketplace
To view a portal's private marketplace:
Click on "Portals" in the "Company content" section of the main navigation menu
Click the portal you want to see the private marketplace of
OR, if you are already in the portal
Click "Find experiences" in the top navigation menu
Create a project for a specific portal
To create a project for a specific portal
Switch to the portal
Create your project as you normally would
Any project you create while within a portal will be automatically added to that portal's private marketplace.
Add an existing project to a specific portal
To add an existing project to a specific portal:
Navigate to the project
Click the "Settings" tab
Click the "Marketplace" tab under the "Matchmaking" group
In the "Private marketplaces" section, select the portal pass from the form of the portal you want to add your project to
Click "Submit"
Remove a project from a specific portal
To remove an existing project from a specific portal:
Navigate to the project
Click the "Settings" tab
Click the "Marketplace" tab under the "Matchmaking" group
Find the portal in the "Private marketplaces" table
Click the trash icon