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Managing Groups

When you become a member of a group in Beaversource, you will be able to participate in group discussions, as well as create group wiki pages and upload files.

For Group Administrators

Group Preferences

Enabling Group files, Group pages and Group discussion will allow group members to communicate within your community.

1. After logging in, find your group through either the the Groups tab at the top of the Beaversource banner or by searching for your group in the search bar.

2. Click Edit group.

3. Group preferences can be found at the bottom of the screen. From here you can change membership permissions and enable/disable group files, group pages and group discussion. Select the preferences you prefer and click Save.

Inviting Friends

1. To invite friends to your group, click Invite friends from your group's main page.

2. From your list of friends, check the box next to their name and click Invite.

The following message will appear when the invitation has been sent: "User has been invited."

For Group Members and Administrators

If Group discussion, Group pages and Group files have been enabled by the group administrator (creator), follow the tutorials below to create group posts, group pages and upload files.

Group Discussion

1. After logging in, click Group discussion found on your group's main page.

2. Next, click Add a topic.

3. From here, provide a title, tags and body of text for your topic. Also, set the status of the topic (usually open) and access restrictions. You can also embed/upload media into your topic message by clicking Embed / upload media. When you are done, click Save.

4. Your post will now appear in the group discussion list. Clicking the hyper-linked title will take you to the topic post.

5. People can then comment on the post, as you can see from the image (orange).

Group Pages

1. After logging in, click Group pages found on your group's main page.

2. Next, click New page.

3. From here, provide a title, tags and body of text for your page. Also, set the access restrictions and write access. **Write access gives write permissions to fellow group members, friends or all Beaversource users.** You can also embed/upload media into your page by clicking Embed / upload media. When you are done, click Save.
4. Your post will now appear in the group discussion list.

Sub-Pages

If a page has already been written, depending on write permissions (see above), you can either edit the page or add a sub-page.

1. To create a sub-page, click on a previously written page listed under the Group pages section of your group's main homepage.

2. Next, click Create a sub-page. Also, make not of the Page navigation directory.

3. Provide a title, tags and body of text for the sub-page. Don't forget to set the Access restrictions. When you're finish click Save.

4. Your page has now been created. Under Page navigation you'll notice that the sub-page has been added to the directory. This navigation page makes it easy to manage pages and organize information.

Group Files

1. Click Group files found on your group's main page.

2. Click Upload a file. All uploaded group files will be listed on this page.

3. Provide a title, tags and body of text (which can include embedded media) for the file. Don't forget to set the Access restrictions. When you're finish click Save.

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