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If you are invited to join an organization on MuckRock you will receive an email with a URL that you can use to accept (or reject) the invitation.

Find your invitation

The email will come from “[email protected]” with a subject line like “Invitation to join (Org Name Here)”.

When you click the link in that invitation, you will be prompted to create a new account, or log in if you already have one.

This screenshot shows an invitation to a MuckRock organization called “David McKie’s Research Methods” — your invitation will name a different MuckRock organization (unless you’re enrolled in Prof McKie’s class.)

Create your account and log in

When you click through from the invite in your inbox, you’ll see the invitation above on MuckRock. Your instructor will be able to tell you what the name of the organization is — it won’t be “Sweet Org.”

• If you don’t have an account you will need to create one, but your invitation should be right there once you do. Use the “Sign Up” button to create your account.
• If you have an account, but are not logged in, you’ll be prompted to log in and you should see a prompt inviting you to follow through on the invitation.

After you create your account and verify your email, you will be redirected to a page that shows you your pending invitations and organizations you can join automatically.

If you’re already signed up and logged in…

If you are already logged in, the “click here to accept” link will take you straight to a page where you will have the option to accept or reject the invitation.

You can also see your open invitations on your MuckRock Accounts account page, in the Organizations section, under the “Open Invitations” subsection. From there, you can accept or reject the invitation.

Troubleshooting

You can associate multiple email addresses with one MuckRock Account, but an invitation will only show up if the email address associated with the invitation is attached to your account.

If the invitation was sent to an email address that is not already associated with you on MuckRock Accounts, you can use the edit email option in your MuckRock accounts profile to add email addresses to your account.

To remove an email address, you click on the red trash icon next to an email address. To delete your primary email address, you need to first have at least one other email address added to your account and make that your primary email address.

If you have added an email address and lost or not received the confirmation email, you may click “Confirm this email” to send a new one to your inbox.

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