...
A community allows admins to create a structured and personalised learning experience for each user. Community members can see content that exists within a community, such as learning plans, articles, questions, links, and files. If a user is a member of one or more communities, they will see content related to those communities in their feeds and search results.
...
| Note |
|---|
This page covers the Communities page in the Fuse4 Beta. If you are using the legacy version of the platform, please refer to Communities. |
...
The following community types can be createdexist:
| Note |
|---|
The global community is unique when compared to other communities in Fusethe platform, as it does not have a community type selected in theCommunity admin screen, such as Open, Protected, Private or Public. You cannot change the community type for the global community. For more information on the global community, see Global community. |
Type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Open | Any user can join and view the community. | ||
Protected | Any user can search for the community in Fuse and view it. Users can apply to join a protected community but the membership must be approved by the community admin.
| ||
Private | Only current members can see the community and the content within it when navigating Fuse, including in search results. Site admins are only able to see references to private communities they don’t belong to in:
| ||
Public | Allows non-registered users to view content within the community but does not allow them to engage with the content such as commenting, liking, and sharing.
|
...
On a community card, click View.
The community homepage appears.
On the community homepage:
If the community is an open community, you can join by clicking the Join community button and , after which you are automatically added to the community as a member.
If the community is protected, you user must click the Join community button and await approval from the community admin. The button label will change to Pending and the admin will approve or reject the application for membership , in the Membership requests section of the Community admin screen.
| Info |
|---|
| Warning |
In the case of private communities, the Join communities button is not present - the only way to join is to be added by the community admin. |
Searching and filtering
If you have a very large list of communities, you can search through them using the internal search bar at the top of the screen and the list of topics narrows down to only show communities that match your search criteria.
...
If you are site admin or a user who is a member of an admin group with the permission to create communities, you will see the Create a community button in the top-right corner of the screen. Clicking this button takes you to the community creation screen in the Admin Panel, where you can start creating and configuring the community.
| Warning |
|---|
If you do not have permission to create communities, the Create a community button is not present on this screen. |
...
Managing a community
If you are a site admin or an admin of a community, you can manage a community, including updating the details, adding and removing users, creating learning plans, managing notification settings, and so on.
...