Local Communities
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Local Communities
Local communities are communities that are located locally to a user's account. Members of these communities will see them appear on their homepage under their communities list, the same as any other community. Below is an example of some local communities listed in a parental account:
There are three different types of local community: Learning Logs (teacher and pupil led), Parental Reporting and General. Each one is created with differing features enabled. The differences are explained in detail below.
To create a local community, navigate to the settings area of the pupil you wish to associated the local community with.
You can access the pupil's settings area either by clicking on the pencil next to their name when viewing accounts in the accounts tab of the administration area 
or by clicking on the cogs when visiting their homepage:
Next click on local communities:
When you click on Create Local Community, you now have a choice of three types of local commuinity.
The differences between these types are shown below:
Learning Logs
Teacher-led learning log
A learning log may be used to share work and create a learning dialogue between a pupil and his or her parents and teachers.
Clicking on 'Learning Log - Teacher Led' will create a community with the following features:
- The pupil and any parent linked to that pupil are added as members to the community
- The gallery and blog features are enabled by default
- The pupil's own user icon is added as the community icon
Parents may choose to keep updated by email of any changes to the blog by clicking on start receiving notifications:
Comments can be made on the learning log by anyone who is a member:
The image below shows the membership screen listing the pupil and a linked parent.
Any of these members can be removed in the usual way by placing a tick next to their name and then clicking on the remove button.
Pupil-led learning log
The pupil-led learning log gives pupils rights to create blog entries and upload and create files in the gallery area.
In this way they may create their own e-scrapbook area uploading their favourite pieces of work and discussing learning that has taken place in the classroom.
When creating the learning log a community with the following features will be enabled:
- The pupil is added as a member to the community
- The gallery and blog features are enabled by default
- The pupil's own user icon is added as the community icon
Teachers may choose to keep updated by email of any changes to the blog by clicking on start receiving notifications which can be accessed by clicking on the 'Blog' icon to the left of the page.
Parental Reporting
A parental reporting community may be used as a place for teachers and parents to create a dialogue and/or report on the progress of a child.
Clicking on 'Parental Reporting' will create a community with the following features:
- The parental account linked to that pupil is added to the community. Their child will not have access to this community from their login.
- The gallery and blog features are enabled by default
- The pupil's own user icon is added as the community icon
Parents may choose to keep updated of any changes to the blog by clicking on start receiving notifications. To see this screen, click on the Blog button to the left of your page which will also show an archive of your blog:
General
This local community is created as a global community would be with all the main community features enabled.
On creation, membership is empty and the community icon is blank.
Bulk Management of Local Communities
Common tasks can be carried out in bulk to multiple accounts at the same time. For example, posting photos to the my work area of all the children in your class or writing a note on everyone's blog. For more information, please visit the bulk management information page
