Communities of Practice

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• Communities of Practice
• Supported by the Improvement and Development
  Agency
• www.communities.idea.gov.uk

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Register your details in order to use the
site. Once registered, you can freely navigate
key areas on the site.
Communities can be viewed by clicking on Most
active communities, or View all communities.
Help View a list of frequently asked questions
regarding the Community of Practice platform
Functionality The functionality available on
every CoP is explained in summary.
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Step 1 Register

• Register your details in order to use the site
  through the Homepage, see Register and become a
  Communities of Practice member today. And click
  on the Register button
• Once registered, you can freely navigate key
  areas on the site.

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• Complete the Sign in details
• Email address
• Password
• Password confirm

• Complete Personal details
• Title
• First name
• Last name
• Job title
• Region
• Organisation or Local authority

Click continue
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Step 2 - Set up your profile

• Once you have registered go to My profile.
• Add your photo, a few words about yourself and
  your areas of expertise.
• Your profile will look similar to the following
  example. You can edit your profile at any time.
• Please populate as much information about
  yourself as possible this helps others connect
  with you.

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Edit my profile
Amend Personal details
Add a photograph
Write a short description of yourself
Add areas of expertise
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Step 3 Get to know the My home

• Various Areas
• Communities of Practice
• Communities can be viewed by clicking on All
  Communities
• You can also search for people by using the
  People Finder
• You can amend you profile by clicking on My
  profile
• Or logout by clicking logout
• Overview
• Overview allows you to see a quick overview on
  what has been happening in your communities.
• Message people in the community by clicking on
  Messages
• View the communities you are part of by clicking
  on My Communities
• Go straight to your Blog by clicking on My Blog
• Manage your email alerts by clicking on Email
  Alerts
• Create a list of contacts by clicking on
  Contacts

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All Communities
My Profile
Messages
My Communities
My Blog
Email Alerts
Contacts
People Finder
Logout
Find a person
Find a community
View all messages
View my Blog
Manage email alerts
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Step 4 find a community

• Type (your keyword) into the
• Search for a Community
• Box
• Or click
• View all communities

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Type (your keyword) into the Search for a
Community and click Go
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Step 5 Apply to Join

• Click on name of the community you wish to join
• Wait for membership to be approved via e-mail
• Its YOUR Community!
• Make the most of it!

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Forum
Events
Members
Documents
Wiki
News Feeds
Blog Entries
Search this community
Latest forum posts
Upcoming events
Searchs selected websites
Latest documents
New members
Active users
Tagged items
Latest blog entries
Latest wiki activity
Poll
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Start a new topic
Subscribe to email alerts
Click to open topic
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Title
Body text
When starting a new topic in the forum area or
replying to a forum posting please complete the
following areas
You can also amend the body text using the online
editor
Bold
Italic
Underlined
Bullets
Numbers
Pictures
Hyperlink
Videos
Attachments if necessary
Tags are word descriptors that you can assign to
community items to help you organise and remember
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Add a new event
Subscribe to email alerts
Click to open event
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Event name
Location
Region
Start date and time End date and time
Description of the event
When adding a new event please complete the
following areas
Website link if available
Contact details if available
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You can see whos on your contacts list
You can view members profiles by clicking on
their name
By using ticking the box on the right side of
members names you can add them to My Contacts
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You can see the members profile and photo
You can send them a message
You can see the communities they have joined
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Add a new document
Subscribe to email alerts
Click to view document
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Document title
When adding a new document please complete the
following areas
Document description

• Attach document
• Word
• Excel
• Powerpoint
• PDF
• Image
• Video
• Audio

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Add a new Blog entry
Blog is short for weblog, a web site where you
regularly publish content. New content is shown
at the top, so your visitors can read what's new
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Subscribe to email alerts
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Title
Body text
When writing a blog please complete the following
areas
Attachments if necessary
Decide which communities the blog entry will be
shown in
Tags
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Contact the Communities team
For CoP enquiries communities_at_idea.gov.uk