Would you like to moderate your community, remove inappropriate posts or mute members? Then here you'll find out how to do that in this help article.
Prerequisite
Creating a community in your online course: you can find instructions on how to do this in this help article: Embedding a community in online courses
Overview
Viewing community feed in edit mode
Reaction to a post - comment or like
Step-by-step guide
Viewing community feed
You can see the history of your communities here:
- the "Communities" tab in the menu.
- Under "Feed view" you can filter by either online course or community name.
Viewing community feed in edit mode
There are two ways to create or edit posts:
- In feed view, click on a post.
- In the "List view" of your communities, click on the desired community.
Tip: In this view you can filter the feed:
- Filter the posts by topic - you define these yourself in the community settings.
- Filter posts by popularity, number of comments, age of post.
Creating a post
Post a post in your community. It can be a combination of text and image, or just one of them:
- Enter a post title.
- Enter post text.
- Upload an image using the "Image icon" button.
- Add a topic to your post (optional).
- Click the "Post" button to share the post.
Reaction to a post - comment or like
Interact with your community by commenting on or liking members' posts.
- Commenting: Write something in the box below a post and click the "Post" button.
- Like: Click the "Thumbs Up" button to like a post.
Display a post of your choice at the top of the feed by pinning it. You can only pin one post at a time, so when you pin another post, the previously pinned post will disappear from the top placement.
- Click the "3 dots button" at the top of the post you want to pin.
- Click on "Pin post"
You can delete your own posts, as well as all posts made by your members if they contain inappropriate content, for example.
- Click the "3 dots button" at the top of the desired post.
- Click on "Delete."
- See screenshot "Pin post."
You can edit your own posts if you wish.
- Click the "3 dots button" at the top of the desired post.
- Click on "Edit."
- See screenshot "Pin post."
You can mute individual members of your community if necessary. Muted members cannot post or comment.
- Open the Community Feed.
- Click the "Community" button in the upper right corner.
Here you have an overview of all community members. You can also see how many posts a member has created and you can display them by clicking on the "View" button.
To mute a member of your community:
- Click on the "Speaker" button for the selected member.
For your quickstart