Communities
Creating a Community & Adding Your Students
Creating a community and adding your students is the final step in setting up your MyCivicsLife account. To create a community and add your students: Select manage communities from the Teacher tools menu (tools icon) , then select create community. ...
Communities Overview
Communities Overview In MyCivicsLife, Communities are places where students and teachers can interact and learn together. Teachers can create communities for subjects they teach, individual classes, small groups, or other collaborative teams. There ...
Joining a Community as a Student
Joining a Community as a Student If you’ve signed up for MyCivicsLife, you’ve already joined your first Community by entering the access code your teacher gave you when you created your account. It’s just as easy to join new communities from within ...
Posting to a Community as a Student
Posting to a Community as a Student To post in a Community, simply enter that Community by selecting the Community name from the Community Menu, then click into the box that says Write a post. The post box—labeled Post (required)— will expand and ...
The Main Stream Overview
The Main Stream Overview The Main Stream is the only fully public Community on MyCivicsLife. All MyCivicsLife users are members of the Main Stream. The Main Stream functions as a news feed for what’s happening in the MyCivicsLife Community. When you ...
Sharing to the Main Stream
Sharing to the Main Stream If you or your teacher are happy with a post in your class Community, you can share it to the Main Stream. Sharing a post to the Main Stream is like publishing it to the public internet. Posts shared from class communities ...
Posting Directly to the Main Stream
Posting Directly to the Main Stream You can post directly to the Main Stream in the same way you post to other communities: navigate to the Main Stream click into the box that says Write a post, give it a title or a citation, use Attach to add any ...
Filtering the Main Stream
Filtering the Main Stream Just beneath the post box on the Main Stream, you’ll see three drop-down menus that allow you to filter the posts you see in the Main Stream. The first menu has three options: All Communities: This view shows all Main Stream ...
Moderation
Moderation Moderation is the process by which you approve your students’ posts and/or comments. The MyCivicsLife student moderation settings determine whether a student can post and comment directly, or whether their posts and comments are held for ...
Viewing a Community
Viewing a Community To view a Community, hover over the Community Menu and click on the Community you want to view. By doing so, you will see: Announcements. A collapsed and empty post box. All posts in that Community made by all Community members, ...