Communities

Learners, but also administrators, can create communities to promote communication & information exchange among learners taking the same courses, having similar assignments etc.

Communities

Learners, but also administrators, can create communities to promote communication & information exchange among learners taking the same courses, having similar assignments etc. To promote this objective, following community types can be created:

Types of communities

Public communities:

Private communities:

Private hidden communities:

Locked communities:

Communities with post release:

Creating a community

Learners can create communities in the learner area: under the listing of existing communities, click on Create community, then add the mandatory title & description of the Community's purpose, if desired upload a picture to single the community out on the overview page and then define it according to the types of communities.

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The creator of a community will automatically be the Community Administrator. Therefore he can immediately add members to the community by going to the Members tab and searching for persons contained within the Person administration, by name and/or prename, then clicking Add.

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These members will then receive an invitation to the community which they will need to confirm in order to gain full access rights to the community, within the bounds of the community definition.

Members can also be removed from the same screen, by clicking Remove and then selecting the desired persons from the listing and saving the option.

Once several community members have been added, the community administrator can also change the role membership: under Members > dropdown Change role, select the new role, then selected the desired member and click Save.

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Creating posts in communities

Members of communities can create posts that will appear in the respective community and if linked with a course / course content, on the course overview pages, like for example here:

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The visibility of such posts is contained within the definition of the community, as such:

To create a post, one can do this directly in the community overview page or in the Communities listing page by clicking the Create post button and then adding the mandatory title & post content. Alternatively, you can create a post directly in a community, where the same form will opened, but the current community will be already linked.

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Following options are available: