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# Configure Mentoring Portal Access

After you set up your Education Cloud Mentoring portal, assign Mentoring participants, preview the site, and then activate the site.

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- **[Assign Mentoring Participants to the Portal](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_configure_mentoring_portal_access.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Add the mentor and mentee profiles as members of the Experience Cloud site that you're using for your Mentoring portals.
- **[Preview, Test, and Activate the Site](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_configure_mentoring_portal_access.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    After configuration, preview and test your site to make sure it's working the way that you want. Then, activate the site to make it available to users.

## Assign Mentoring Participants to the Portal

Add the mentor and mentee profiles as members of the Experience Cloud site that you're using for your Mentoring portals.

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                <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d89745e120">User Permission Needed</th>
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                <td data-label="User Permission Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d89745e120 ">To assign mentoring participants to a mentoring portal:</td>
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                  <p>Education Cloud Full Access</p>
                  <p>AND</p>
                  <p>Create and Set Up Experiences</p>
                  <p>AND
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                  <p>View Setup and Configuration
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                  <p>AND
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                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Be a member of the site AND View Setup and Configuration AND an experience admin, publisher, or builder in that site
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1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Digital Experiences, and then select **All Sites**.
2. Next to your site, click **Workspaces**, and then select **Administration**.
3. Click **Members**.
4. Under Select Profiles, for Search, select **Customer**.
5. Add the profiles to the Selected Profiles list.
    1. For a single portal, add both the Mentor and Mentee profiles.
    2. For a separate mentee portal, add your mentee profile.
    3. For a separate mentor portal, add your mentor profile.
6. Save your changes.

## Preview, Test, and Activate the Site

After configuration, preview and test your site to make sure it's working the way that you want. Then, activate the site to make it available to users.

See Also:

- [Preview Your Experience Builder Site](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleview?id=experience.community_designer_preview.htm&type=5)
- [Activate Your Site](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleview?id=experience.networks_publish.htm&type=5)