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A Quick Tutorial: Permission Granting

If you've never used an Edsu app before, there's one thing that might need explanation. Edsu apps are distributed across internet, but you don't have to create accounts for each one. Instead, you log in to your Edsu account here and then grant permissions to each app that you want to use.

Somewhere in each app, in the place of a sign-up/log-in, you'll find something that looks like this:

When you fill it out with your Edsu username and hit enter or click the button, it will open a new browser tab. The app must provide a very specific description of actions that it wants permissions to perform - e.g. read and write certain areas in your data storage - this is your opportunity to grant or deny that request.

If what's requested looks sensible to you based on what the app does then click Grant - the tab will close and you'll be returned to the app, which will then proceed with the new permissions that you've given it.

Otherwise, you can click Deny and the tab will go away without granting any permissions to the app.

Where to Go From Here

Your account page in the Edclave is an Edsu app - that's a good place to start. After that, you can browse other apps here or click the Apps link in the site menu. Edsu just launched, so it's a small list, but it's growing.

Finally, thanks for joining us at the Enclave. We envision a place where the open source community can live their digital lives with their own code and their own data, and if you want that too you're in good company :)