How to Create a Community Group

Instructions for building your community group

Written by Champ

Updated over 2 weeks ago

How to set up and launch a branded community group inside your OS. You'll learn how to customize everything—from the name, domain, and design to member access, subscriptions, channels, and rewards.

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1. Head to the left side bar under "Courses & Community" and select "Communities".

2. Click on "Create a Community".

3. First, enter in your community name! (This is able to be changed).

4. Next is the slug, this will auto populate from the group name!

5. Enter the brief description, this has a max character limit of 150.

6. You can either enable to disable discovery. This can also be turned on at a later date!

7. Next, we need to attach a favicon. This will show up on your browser tab and is usually the same as the logo. It needs to be a 1:1 aspect ratio.

8. The cover image is the main image your members will see. This needs to be in a 16:9 aspect ratio.

9. The logo needs to be a 1:1 aspect ration and is usually the same as the favicon!

10. After all of this is updated, please select "Create Group".

11. You will need to create a password for your user. Make sure to keep this safe!

12. Upload your user profile image and bio here!

13. The first thing you want to edit is the "Settings" tab.

14. The "Details" section is where you can edit your group name, url, description and whether is public or private!

15. The second tab is "Subscriptions". Here is where you can add a price to your community!

16. The third section is "Branding". This is where you can the images you uploaded before!

17. The theme tab is where you can edit the colors of the community. You can choose light or dark, choose a pre-built theme, or make a custom theme!

18. The membership questions allow you to gather information before someone joins the community!

19. Next, you can add Gamification/Rewards!

20. Next up, you can add any promotional links for your community. These will show up above the "Settings" button on the main dashboard!

21. The reported content section will show any reports from members!

22. The last tab is Discovery. This is where you can enable your community to be discovered by anyone that uses gokollab.com.

23. Click on "Save".

24. Next, head back out of the community into OS, and select "Settings" from the communities dropdown.

25. In this area, we can add a custom domain for our community! We recommend adding the subdomain to be members.yourdomain.com, portal.yourdomainname.com, community.yourdomainname.com.

26. Enter the sub-domain you would like to use and click "add domain".

27. Next up, click on "Add record manually".

28. Take these values and enter them into your DNS provider. Once added, click "Verify Records".

29. Once done, you will be able to use your new domain to access your community!

30. Click on "+ Add Channel".

31. In this tab, you can add a new channel to your community. This can be private or public!

32. Now, click on "Learning".

33. Under this tab, you can add any courses you have created in your OS account!

34. The "Members" tab will show you any active members, admins, contributors, requests and banned members!

35. The "Events" tab will show any calendar events that you have created.

36. The "Leaderboard" will show the top members and any rewards that can be earned!

37. Those are the main sections of your OS community! Please take a deeper dive into each of those tabs and areas to make sure you are familiar with your community!