Create communities

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Create communities for your project teams or for colleagues with common interests. Several people can own or moderate a community, and anyone in the community can post to it. Note: You can only create public, private, or “ask to join” communities within your domain. Outside your domain, you can only create private communities. You can no longer create public communities, but you can still interact with existing public communities.

In this section, you learn how to: Create a community Find and join a community Invite people to join a community Update a community Remove posts or people Delete a community

Create a community

Create different types of communities based on your goals. You can share ideas and announcements with your team, or connect with co-workers that share the same interests as you do.

1. From the main menu, click Communities.
2. Click New Community. Or, if you have no communities yet, click Create Community.
3. Enter a name for your community and choose who can see it.
4. (Optional) To specify other settings, click More Options.
5. Click Done.

Find and join a community

When you join a community, you can see posts from that community in your stream and share posts to the community.

Find a community:

1. From the main menu, click Communities.
2. (Optional) To see recommended communities, at the bottom, click Discover More.
3. Use the search bar to search for communities by name.
4. (Optional) To find out more about a community, click it.

Join a community:

1. Click Join (or Ask To Join for communities that require permission).
2. If you’ve been invited to join a private community, click Decline or Accept.

Note: If you join a restricted community (indicated by the building icon ), only Google Workspace users in your domain can see your posts and view membership. Google Workspace users outside your domain can be members of a non-restricted community.

Leave a community:

1. Open the community you want to leave.
2. Click More  and click Leave Community.
3. Click Leave to confirm.

 

Invite people to join a community

Invite people on Currents:

1. Open the community you want to invite someone to.
2. Click Invite Invite people and Google Groups.
3. Use Search to find people.
4. Check the box next to the person and click Next.
5. (Optional) Add a message.
6. Click Post.

Invite people with a link:

If you invite someone who doesn’t have a Currents profile, they need to have a Google Workspace account to create one.

1. Open the community you want to invite someone to.
2. Click Invite Invite people with a link.
3. Turn on Allow invites by link.
4. Click Copy, and then click Close.
5. Send the link to the people or groups you want to invite.

   If Currents is limited to your organization, only members of your organization can access the link.

Promote members to moderators or owners of your community:

1. Open the community.
2. Click MoreManage members.
3. Next to the person you want to make a moderator or owner, click More  and choose Promote from member to moderator or Promote from moderator to owner.
4. (Optional) If you don't want someone to be a moderator or owner of your community anymore, follow the steps above, but choose Demote from moderator to member or Demote from owner to moderator.

Update a community

Owners or moderators of communities can update them at any time. Change the cover photo, title, category filters, and more.

1. Open the community.
2. Click MoreEdit Community.
3. Make any of the following changes:
   • Click Camera  to change the cover photo.
   • Click the title to change it.
   • Click under the title to add or change a tagline.
   • Turn on Ask to join to require that people ask before joining the community.
   • Turn on Hold posts for review to review posts before they're submitted.
   • Turn on Content controls to use stronger content controls (reduces spam or inappropriate content).
   • Add or change a description.
   • Under Categories, click Add and type a category name, or click an existing name to change it.
   • Under Links, click Add and type a URL, or click an existing link to change it.
4. Click Done.

Remove posts or people

Owners or moderators can remove posts, comments, or people from the community. If someone leaves your team, you can remove them from the team’s community.

Remove a post or comment:

1. Open the post or comment you want to remove from your community.
2. Click MoreRemove comment or Remove post.
3. Removing a post or comment removes it only from the community. Posts might still be seen on the creator’s profile or if they were reshared to another community.

Remove or ban a person from a community:

1. Open the community.
2. Click MoreManage members.
3. Next to the person you want to remove or ban, click  More  and choose Ban from Community or Remove from Community.
4. If you remove a person, they leave the community, but they can join it again if they want to. To prevent them from joining again, you can ban them. If you change your mind, you can un-ban them.

Delete a community

1. Open the community you want to delete.
2. Click MoreDelete Community.

Note: Only the owner of a community can delete it. Moderators can’t delete a community.