Hide Content from Public/Student View

The previous page discussed hiding an entire part from public view, without deleting it.  To recap,

  • go to the Edit screen of the Part
  • check the box next to “Invisible”

Hiding Pages

If you’d like to adjust the visibility of single pages, however, this can be done from the Organize page.Screenshot of organize page, showing rows of checkboxes for page options

The checkboxes under the column “Private” allow you to adjust the visibility of individual pages.

If every page within a part (chapter) is hidden, readers will still see the Part title in the Table of Contents, but it will appear empty. When reading the online text page to page, they will skip that part entirely.

To remove the Part title from the Table of Contents, mark the part invisible.

By default, Lumen textbooks come with content under “Instructor Resources” set to private so that it can’t be found by students on a web search. These items generally include assessments and other teaching resources. You are welcome to make some or all of this content public for your book if you’d like your students to access it, but please be cautious as these materials may be spread quickly to other users who may not have the most honorable intentions in mind.

If you know that you will not use a page for a particular course, we recommend that you mark it as “private” rather than deleting it entirely.  You never know when you’ll want to take a peek at it again, somewhere down the road!