Participating in groups

For instructions on how to create and configure groups, see creating content. This page focuses on how to participate in groups.

The group home page gives members and visitors an overview of recent activity, upcoming events, membership, and featured content within a group.

Group home page

Left sidebar:

• Calendar of upcoming events posted to this group. (None are present in the sample above.)
• List of recent activity in the group.

Center:

• Group description. Click Find out more to expand.
• Recent content of any type posted in this group. Filter the posts by search terms, author (username), tags, and content type.

Right sidebar (appears on every post within the group):

• Post content button/menu lists all content types that can be posted to the group and will default to adding them to the group.
• Group actions button/menu allows you to change your membership (ie: leave the group) and allows administrators to manage group members. If you are not a member, you will see a Join group button instead.
• Profiles of group members.
• Tags used in this group.
• Other content such as group polls.

Posting group content

To add content to a group, click the Post Content button and follow the instructions under creating content. Before publishing, click the Post to Groups tab (above) and select which groups you would like to publish the post to. You may select as many as you like all will be listed on the post (below left), but only the first group will be shown in the right sidebar of the post (below right).