Community Template - Administrator View

The administrator view of a community template enables administrators to view the default topics within the community template, create new topics for the community template, and edit the community template.

A community template contains default content, including a banner, an HTML widget, topics, and postings. A community template is created in order to be used with a cohort learning object (LO), and when a cohort LO is created using a community template, a cohort community is created with all of the default content from the community template. This enables administrators to quickly create new cohort communities for each new cohort, allowing each cohort to have their own unique experience.

To access the administrator view of a community template, go to Admin > Tools > Connect > Community Templates. Then, click the community template name.

PERMISSION NAME PERMISSION DESCRIPTION CATEGORY
Manage Knowledge Bank/Communities Administration Grants ability to view the New Knowledge Bank Administration page and manage Action Groups. Based on permission constraints, administrators with this permission can create and delete topics and subtopics. Administrators with this permission can view all communities, topics, sub-topics and postings, regardless of availability. In addition, administrators can add a posting to the Course Catalog. When creating a topic, the constraints on this permission are automatically applied to the topic's availability. This permission can be constrained by OU and User's OU. This permission is assigned to the default Administrator role by default. New Connect

Each top-level topic within the community template is displayed in alphabetical order. When a community template is first created, there are no topics available within the community template.

Edit Community Template Details

To edit the community template details, click the Edit Details button. See Community Template - Create/Edit.

Create Topic

To create a default topic for the community template, click the Create Topic button. See Community Template Topic - Create/Edit.

View Topic Details Page

The Topic Details page displays all of the default subtopics within the topic and all of the default topic postings. Administrators are able to edit or delete the topic, create subtopics, or create postings.

To view the Topic Details page for a topic, click the topic name. See Community Template - Topic Details Page.