Inviting Members and Guests to Your Slack Workspace

Only workspace admins and owners are able to invite someone to their workspace. Workspace members may send a request to their workspace admin to invite someone.

If you are looking to invite someone external to Dartmouth, they will need to be invited as a guest. Skip ahead to the instructions for that below.

Member

Anyone with an @dartmouth.edu email address should be invited as a member. Faculty, Staff, Students, and Sponsored accounts are all licensed for Slack.

  1. Click on the workspace name at the top-left of Slack.
  2. Select "Invite people to <Your Workspace>".

  1. Enter the user’s full Dartmouth email address.
    1. Make sure to use their full Dartmouth email address that ends in @Dartmouth.edu, not @tuck.dartmouth.edu or other. Do not use an alias.
    2. You can find someone’s full email address at lookup.dartmouth.edu

  1. Click Send to send the user an invite.

Guest

If you are inviting multiple guests, and they are already using Slack at their organization, try Slack Connect. This creates a shared channel between your workspace and theirs so that multiple users can collaborate without needing guest accounts.

To send a single user a guest invite, follow these steps:

  1. Click on the workspace name at the top-left of Slack.
  2. Select "Invite people to <Your Workspace>".

  1. Click the dropdown menu under “Invite as” and select Guest.

  1. Enter the user’s non-Dartmouth email address.
  2. Type in the field to search for channels that the guest should be able to access in your workspace. You can add more than one.

  1. If the guest’s collaboration ends after a certain amount of time, you can set an expiration date on their guest account. You will receive a reminder before it expires and can extend it if needed.
  2. Finally, you can add a custom message to your invite if you like
  3. Click Send.

The invited guest will receive an email invite and can create a password for their guest account. When they sign in to the workspace, they can click on the “I have a guest account” button to sign in.

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