Creating a Group on Curriki
Creating a group on Curriki is a great way to develop a small community within the larger global education and learning community.
Your group can be based on shared interests, organizational affiliations, a specific curriculum development project, or whatever activity you feel will benefit from a shared space for a group of Curriki members.
What can Curriki groups do?
- Share a group space for accessing group tools and resources
- Collaborate on building and editing curriculum
- Use a message board to communicate about the group in general or about specific group projects
- Grow to include new members
- Highlight group curricula and activities for use or participation by the rest of the Curriki community
- Share group information and documents
When you create a group on Curriki…
- You create a space for the work of a project group, including the following pages, which are organized for your group in a tabbed display:
- Home
- Messages
- Curriculum
- Members
- Documentation
- You take on the role of Group Leader, which means you can:
- Edit information about the group
- Accept new members into your group
- Control special content sections that display in your group’s pages
- Help define and document best practices for the group
- Participate in the Curriki Leaders group
- Your group’s space gets its own web address for easy sharing and access.
Get Started
- If you are going to create a group on Curriki, it’s important to:
- Know that Curriki groups can be featured and linked to from various places on the site, such as the home page or the “Browse Groups” page.
- Recognize your commitment – as the group’s creator and leader – to making your group a useful and active area for its members and for the wider Curriki community.
- Be prepared to commit about two hours per month to maintaining your group space and proactively building your group.
