Purpose: To help you understand and interact with Employee Community groups.

Table of Contents

• Group overview
• Creating groups
• Group settings
• Types of groups

Groups are the foundational structure of the Employee Community and serve two main purposes: an organized way to keep your Employee Community content and a way to categorize members based on departments, projects, teams, and interests.

When creating content within Employee Community, every post is organized into a group that is then categorized by topics.

You will need at least one group created to use Employee Community effectively.

To create a group from the Groups page, click +Create Group, fill in the group information, and then click Create Group to add your group to the Groups page.

Each group in Employee Community has a unique list of settings that allow you to manage membership, content permissions, notification requirements, and more. To edit a group's settings, click the three-dot icon on the top right corner and select Group Settings from the dropdown menu.

On this page, you can edit your group name, description, and avatar.

You can also use the toggles under Permissions to disable member posting, where only admins and moderators can post, and disable comments, where commenting on posts is disabled.

On the Maintenance tab, you can delete, merge, or convert the group to a topic. Additionally, you can edit your group topics, resources, and integrations from the left navigation menu.

You can toggle on/off different group permissions within a group to best fit your communication needs. Below are the various types of groups:

• Private group: Private groups and their content can only be seen by users invited to the specific group.
• Admin accessible: This group is viewable by all admins regardless if they are members.
• Featured group: Featured groups are designated with a star and supersede the alphabetically arranged groups on your groups page. Featured groups are also housed in the smart menu on your Organization Feed.
• Required groups: All organization members are required to join this group and cannot leave it.
• Disable member posting: Only admins and moderators will be able to post in the group if this is toggled on.
• Disable member comments: All users will not be able to leave comments on posts.
• Broadcast group (under "Email Notifications"): All users will receive instant email notifications for new posts in the group.