Personalisation and Projects

Sharing and Collaborating in Projects

Learn to share project context with appropriate boundaries where available and avoid exposing unrelated information in this beginner-friendly ChatGPT lesson.

Learning outcomes

  • Explain how to share project context with appropriate boundaries where available.
  • Complete the guided activity safely.
  • Check that you can avoid exposing unrelated information.

Before you begin

Review what information is suitable to save, remember or share. Use project-only information for work that needs clear context boundaries.

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Step-by-step instructions

  1. Open ChatGPT Settings or a new Project and confirm you are using the intended account or workspace.
  2. Review members, files and instructions before a practice share.
  3. Pause and check privacy, permissions, source material, feature availability and any instruction that affects the task.
  4. Review the result carefully and confirm that you can avoid exposing unrelated information.
  5. Save only the useful, verified output and record one improvement for your next prompt.
Ian's practical tip: Start with fictional or non-sensitive information. Treat the first response as a draft, then verify facts, sources, calculations and permissions before using it.

Practical activity

Review members, files and instructions before a practice share. Your expected result is to avoid exposing unrelated information.

Good-practice checklist