Posts
Posts (Overview)
Posts (Overview) Posts are the way users write, interact, and share content on MyCivicsLife. When you select Posts from the My Stuff (indicated by the backpack icon) drop-down menu at the top of MyCivicsLife, you will see all of your posts to your ...
Write A Post
Write A Post Whenever you see the Write a post box, you can participate in the conversation. The post box is collapsed to enable as many posts to show above the fold of the site as possible but automatically expands when you click into it. These are ...
Post (Community) Stream View
Post (Community) Stream View When you’re viewing a Community stream, including the Main Stream, you won’t see full posts. Instead, you’ll see the first 300 characters of the post and a preview of any attachments. Live posts have the following ...
Interacting with Posts
Interacting with Posts Beneath the content of the post are buttons you can use to interact with it. They are: Responses: Hover over the circular thumb icon below the post to see the six emoticons you can click to respond to the post: Like, Genius, ...
What Can I Post?
What Can I Post? Posts can contain: Text: Create a text post by typing directly into the post box. Text posts and creative project links make up the majority of MyCivicsLife posts. Embedded links: To link to an external site or project, you can type ...
Teacher Feedback on Posts
Teacher Feedback on Posts Your teacher can approve, moderate, or send you feedback on your posts directly in MyCivicsLife. This can happen for several reasons, but some of the most common are: Your post is not written in first person or from the ...
Disapproved Posts
Disapproved Posts If you create a post that is disapproved, you will receive a message letting you know, and a copy of your post will return to Drafts where you can revise and resubmit it. Click Options, then View teacher feedback to see any messages ...
The Draft Center (Drafts)
The Draft Center (Drafts) There are three reasons posts are sent to Drafts: When you’re writing a post and want to save that post as a draft to finish later. When a post submitted for teacher feedback is returned. When a teacher disapproves a post in ...
Comments
Comments You can interact, ask questions, and discuss the content of posts by making a comment as your identity. The comment box will appear directly beneath the post itself (if commenting is enabled), with the words “Join the discussion” in the box. ...
Responses
Responses Responses are a quick way of letting others know your identity’s reaction to their post. Beneath each post is a series of buttons that allow you to interact with the content. Hover over (or click on mobile) the thumbs up icon (Like) to view ...
Bookmarks
Bookmarks Bookmark a Post: If you’re reading a post that you enjoy and might like to re-read or refer to later, you can click the Bookmark button beneath the post content. You’ll see a screen that confirms that you want to add the post to your ...