Tuesday 26 February 2013

Create Community on Google+ For Effective Group Learning

In educational arena, due to increasing number of social media such as Google Plus, Facebook, and Twitter, it becomes easy for students to share their educational practices and experience with each other. However, Google Plus is introduced by Google, which provides its user not only a way of entertainment, but also helps learners to solve their learning concerns, take assignment help from friends, and provide wide information with each other to enlarge their knowledge area. For this purpose, Google Plus offers the facility of making online communities through which students of all over the world are able to share, gain information and solve issues through group discussions. 

How to Create Community on Google Plus
By considering the significance of Google Plus communities in educational arena particularly for online learners, here is an easy way described by which students can easily create communities on Google Plus.  

Step 1: Click on Communities Option
To create Google+ community, you first need to login your Google Plus account and then navigate to the left bar as illustrated below. Here you have to click on “New Communities” to start the process of creating online Google Plus community.




Step 2: Click on “Create a Community”
Once you click “New Communities”, you will be navigated to new page, where you have to click on “Create a Community” as shown in the image given below. This option can be seen easily at the top of the page, below the search option, within red box.
  


Step 3: Make Decision about the Type of Community That You Want
Once you click on “Create a Community”, a new page will appear with two options shown in the image below, regarding type of community that you want. Here you have to select either Public or Private Options; public community option allows people of worldwide to see your community easily, private community option can only be accessed by community members invited by you. 




Step 4: Enter the Desired Name of Your Google Plus Community
After selecting the type of community, it will be asked to provide a specific name that you want to give to your community also you have to decide whether people can search it or not. After that, click on “Create Community” and next page of your community will appear.



Step 5: Start Community, Edit It, and Invite Friends
Once you click on “Create Community”, the following window will appear:



The above window will allow you to make necessary adjustment as you want. Here you can change your community profile picture, can include different categories and discussions according to the field of your education since it allows you to meet the people belonging to your educational field. Besides it, you can also use the option ‘Actions’ given on the main community page and below the community profile picture. This option allows you to not only edit community, but also allows you to invite friends along with other important options.




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