Communities
- Emma Booth
- Gemma Dowsett
Harness the power of community and create safe, engaging spaces for learners to connect.
Why do I need a community space?
Self-paced, online learning in the workplace is great. It allows employees the autonomy to plan their own day and engage with learning at a time that suits their schedule. But it can often get pushed to the bottom of the to-do list.
Learn Amp's community space brings motivation and accountability back into learning, providing the perfect place for cohorts to discuss new ideas, work together on problems and have fun learning together. You can set up a course syllabus including scheduled workshops and assignments, create engaging Dashboards and enable a discussion feed to encourage interaction; familiar features from social media create a sense of psychological safety and encourage learners to interact with the content, and with each other.
Ok, great! Who should be in my communities?
We’ve seen two key use cases amongst our customers (so far!) that we are hoping to support with this beta feature.
Cohort-based learning
Cohort-based learning occurs when a group of learners move through a course together. The course could be a blend of events, self-paced learning, assessments and group tasks
Guilds
Guilds are can be groups of people with similar interests, or they can be set up around key areas of the business to support knowledge sharing from subject matter experts.
And how does it work?
Communities are built on our existing ‘Team’ architecture. You can create a community by clicking the + button in the top navigation and selecting ‘Team.’
From here you will be able to select the ‘Community’ type.
Then you can start designing your Community Space.
Tabs
We have given you complete flexibility over the tabs that appear in each community so you can create a space that is customised to be relevant for the members of that community. Below we go through each tab and discuss when you might want to use it.
Managers
Managers of a community will have the same permissions as a manager of a standard team. Read more here.
Privacy
Hierarchy
Communities can also be part of your team hierarchy. This works best for Guilds that are structured around your organisational structure eg. a Sales guild for the Sales team. Communities created for cohort based learning are less likely to be linked to your hierarchy due to their more transient nature.
People
This is where you can pre-populate members of the community, but don’t worry you can still add more people after the team is created!
My community is ready to launch; how do promote awareness to learners?
We have two Dashboard widgets that will help you to promote communities to your users.
The All Teams widget will display all teams to your users so that they can browse and apply to join communities that are relevant to them. The My Teams widget keeps all of your user’s communities in one place for easy access.
Check it out by heading to a Dashboard and clicking ‘Add widget.’
