Social networks are crucial for new businesses and products. Creating a sense of community for your students, where they can communicate, receive guidance, and stay informed about school news, is valuable. That's why LearnWorlds provides a built-in Community feature, empowering your users to bond and actively engage with the school.
In this article, we will explore how to utilize your school's community, and we will dive in and outline all of the available actions within the community.
To enable users (signed up and logged in) to access the school's community:
- Include the relevant link in the top bar.
- Add a button that redirects to the Community on any page within the school's website.
Community Overview
On the Community page, users can see the Collections and Spaces that are included and that they are a part of and any mentions that they may have. Community spaces can exist as part of the main Community page or within a course as a social learning activity.
- Spaces: Areas within the community where users interact with one another. All spaces in the community belong to a Collection.
- Collections: Groups of spaces within your community.
Community Structure
On the left sidebar users can find:
- Mentions of themselves
- Replies to their posts
- Collections and spaces they are part of
- Course discussions for any courses they are enrolled in (if the Community Access setting is enabled for those courses)
On the right of the Community page, you or your users can:
- Search for posts
- Sort the posts by newest activity first, newest/oldest first (if this option is enabled)
- See which users are online
It is possible to add a post and comment on other users' posts at the center and main body of the Community. You or your users can navigate to the different Collections, Spaces, and Course Discussions via the left sidebar.
Posts and Comments
Once a post is created, users can:
- Edit or delete the post
- Copy the post link to share it
- Pin important posts to the top of the community (admin or community manager only)
In the posts and comments, you or your users can add/upload:
- Emojis
- Mentions of other users by clicking on the @ symbol and adding the first characters of the users' name. User roles that have enabled the Manage community permission (e.g. admins, community managers), can also tag everyone using the @all option.
- Images (you can also upload multiple images in the same post)
- Files
- Polls
Limitations:
- The maximum file size for all attachments in a post is 20 MB.
- Posts have a 10,000-character limit, and comments have a 5,000-character limit.
Supported file types:
When you upload files in your community posts, the supported file types are the below:
- For images: bmp, gif, jpeg, png
- For video: webm, mp4,
- For audio: webm, mpeg, ogg
- For files: .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .zip, .rar
You can also react to posts, you can like a post, upvote it, and comment on it.
- Users can communicate with each other if the inbox option is enabled; while hovering over a user profile, you can see the message option.- Users can also report other users if they hover over a user profile. If a user is reported, the Admins or Community manager will get a notification: "User X has reported user Y (email) for bad behavior," and the user will also receive a "Spammy" badge if the gamification is enabled.
- Users/Space members cannot create collections or spaces.