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# How to Enable Self-Serve Learning in the Library

# How to Enable Self-Serve Learning in the Library

**In this article:**
* Overview
* How to enable self-serve learning
* Things to keep in mind
* FAQs
* Who can do this

## Overview
Self-serve learning lets your people browse the Library and assign content to themselves, rather than waiting for a Manager or Admin to assign it. SuperPath controls this separately for your two content sources: your own uploaded content (the private Library) and SuperPath's public learning content (the public Library). When self-serve is switched off for a source, people can no longer self-assign that content and it must be assigned by a Manager or Admin.

These are account-wide settings on the **Library** tab in **Settings**.

## How to enable self-serve learning
1. Go to **Settings → Library**.
2. Find the **Library Content** section.
3. To let people self-assign your own content, switch on **Enable users to self serve learning content from the private library?**.
4. To let people self-assign public content, switch on **Enable users to self serve learning content from the public library?**. This option only appears once **Enable public learning content in the Library?** is turned on.
5. A save bar appears at the top of the page — click **Save**.

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> **Note:** The public self-serve toggle is only visible when public learning content is enabled. If you can't see it, turn on **Enable public learning content in the Library?** first — see *How to Turn On the Public or Default Content Library*.

## Things to keep in mind
* Disabling private self-serve stops people self-assigning content from your private Library — all such content must then be assigned by a Manager or Admin.
* Disabling public self-serve does the same for SuperPath's public content.
* Turning on private self-serve reveals a further option, **Enable learning requests in the library**, which lets people request content instead of self-assigning. See *How to Enable Learning Requests*.
* Nothing is saved until you click **Save** — if you toggle a switch and leave the page without saving, the change is discarded.

## FAQs
**Why can't I see the public self-serve option?**
It only appears when public learning content is enabled. Switch on **Enable public learning content in the Library?** and the public self-serve toggle will show beneath it.

**Do these settings affect content that has already been assigned?**
No. They control whether people can self-assign new content from the Library. Content that has already been assigned is unaffected.

## Who can do this
Only **Owners** and **Admins** can change Library settings. The **Settings** area — where the Library tab lives — is only available to Owners and Admins, and saving a Library setting requires the same permission. **Managers**, **Content Managers**, **People Managers**, **Instructors**, **Employees** and **Restricted** users cannot.