Managing Communities

This article covers the Community screen itself: finding communities, the module settings, and archiving.

The Community screen

Go to Engage → Community. The screen is a two-panel layout:

• The left panel lists your communities, with a count, each community's image and name, an "archived" tag where relevant, and an unread-message badge.
• The right panel shows the selected community's messages or feed.

Finding communities

• Search communities by name.

  

• Use the filter to Show Unread Only, or to filter by batch and archived status.

• Open the alert menu for Reported Messages and Banned Learners (see Community Moderation).

  

Module settings

The settings (gear) opens Community Module Settings, where you set the whole module Active or Inactive for learners. This requires manage-write permission.

Creating and opening

• New Community starts the create flow (see Enabling & Creating a Community).

  

• Click a community in the left panel to open it on the right.

Archiving

Communities are archived, not deleted. Archiving is done from a community's Settings danger zone (see Community Settings & Permissions).

First-time setup

If you have no communities yet, the screen shows an "Introducing Community" welcome with a Create a Community button and an Enable Community Module switch, both requiring the right permission.

Permissions

• View / participate: community read access.
• Create / configure / module toggle: community manage-write access.
• Manage members: community user-management access.
• Moderate / ban: moderation and message access (banning is admin-only).
• Archive: community manage-delete access.

You're done

That completes the Community collection. You can now enable the module, create standalone, batch-linked, or global communities, configure permissions and moderation, manage members, take part in conversations, and moderate content and learners.