Everything you need to know our Community feature-2 - How to enable community feature and adding a new community

Video Transcription

In this video tutorial, we will go over how to set up a community under dashboard and the course layout. You scroll down and you'll notice that we have a social feature where we used to say discussion forum and when you click on it. Now you can choose to turn on community or discussion as your social feature.  You cannot have both turned on. You either have community or you can have discussion forum. Only have a discussion forum essentially will give everyone access to the same set of discussion forums, whereas enable community, which is what I'm about to do, allows user to only participate or see the discussion forum that their community of.  After you have enabled community, you can close and you will see that this feature is enabled. You can always click on it and click on community configuration to see all the communities that you have enabled.  In this site, what I'm going to do is I would just set up a couple of new communities. The first one, let's say we're going to call it first year college student.  OK, and then we'll make it a public community. That means everyone can join and that you could, if you want, have a little description. What I would do is I would just generate some text, even though this probably not the right description for the first year college student.  I would just do that and you can, if you want, prompt the user for a set of profiles when the user decide to join. You can also upload a cover image to better display where your community is. The cover image just need to be 180 by 180.  If you don't add a cover image, a default one is provided. As you can see here, I have just created a community and it is public. Notice I can always edit and change to private.  With a public community enabled, what I will do is I will open my different browser and I'm just going to refresh my screen and you will see the first year community is listed here.  As a user on the website, they can click on the community. They can see what you have uploaded and what are the existing resources or members as part of the community. And if they are interested, they can click on join to join the community.  In the next set of tutorials, we'll talk about a few other ways of managing your community and configuring your community. Thank you.

Video Summary

In this video tutorial, the presenter demonstrates how to set up a community under a dashboard and the course layout. The social feature allows users to choose between turning on the community or discussion forum, but not both. Enabling the community feature allows users to only participate in or see the discussion forums that are relevant to their community. The presenter then proceeds to set up a public community called "first-year college students" with a generated description. They also mention the option to prompt users for profiles upon joining and the ability to upload a cover image. Finally, the presenter shows how the community appears to users and mentions that future tutorials will cover managing and configuring the community. No credits are mentioned.

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Creation Year 2023

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