Manage Connect Community Layout (Old)

Administrators can customize Connect Community layouts via Connect Administration.

To manage Community layouts, go to: Admin > Tools > Connect > Connect Administration and click the Communities link.

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

Customize Layout

To customize a Connect Communities layout:

  1. Click the Layout icon in the Options column next to a community.
  2. Widgets may be dragged and dropped to either two columns in any order.
  3. The Edit icon on the widget title bar can be used to edit the title and to specify number of items to display.
  4. To remove a widget from display, drag and drop the widget to the anchor area in the top right of the screen.
  5. Custom 1 or Custom 2 - To create custom message boxes, drag and drop Custom 1 and/or Custom 2 to the lower section of the screen and click the Edit icon to enter message (HTML friendly).
  6. Leaders - Drag and drop the Leaders widget to include the widget on the Community's main page. By default the widget will be titled "Leaders," and will display four community leaders.