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      Creating a Home Page for a Co-creation Community

      How to use your Home Page to drive engagement in your community.

      Customisation is key to driving engagement; a fun and interactive Home Page can prove to be significantly more enticing. The Home Page is comprised of a set of “blocks” which are edited and arranged as you like. You may have as many or as few blocks as you wish.

      Please note that only Site Admins or Community Admins can edit the Home Page. 

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      Block types

      Adding new blocks

      Editing a block

      Block types

      • General – general information block that can contain a background image or colour and one or more rows of text. Each text row can be displayed in a single or double column format.
      • Media - allows you to display a single image or a video. It is a single row block, supporting various image formats (.jpeg, .jpg, .png & .gif) and embedded players (Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud).
      • Featured Content – allows you to feature multiple entities of the same type, in a single block. This block can feature Challenges, Conversations and Ideas. Great for displaying multiple Challenges in a concise way.
      • Challenge - feature a Challenge, including the name, description, workflow, calls to action and up to five ideas.
      • Conversation – feature a Conversation, including the name, description and up to the five most recent comments.
      • Gamification – If you are using Gamification you can add the Gamification leaderboard directly to your home page.
      • Analytics – Allows you to display our analytics and gamification widgets.
      • Idea Recommendations - show cards of Recommended Ideas
      • Custom Cards – Allows you to create a block with a series of cards around a specific theme, idea or any other categorisation. These cards can be linked to any internal or external content you wish as well as a custom image applied. 

      How to add blocks to the Home Page

      1. Navigate to the Co-creation Community and select the Settings cog and then select Edit Home Page from the dropdown menu.. 
      2. Edit the current draft or start from scratch, click Continue.
      3. Select Add New Block at the bottom of the side menu.
      4. Select what type of block you want to add. See descriptions of block types above.
      5. For each block you will be presented with formatting options, these will differ depending on the block: There are some specific options detailed below.
        1. Format general block content 
        2. Select visibility of the block
        3. Appearance settings: choose a background image or colour
        4. Select what content from the platform you wish to be shown in the block
        5. Select an attachment 
      6. To add text to blocks such as General block, click into the block itself and then type directly into the boxes, edit the format using the options available.
      7. Click Save and Exit if you haven’t finished building your Home Page or Publish and Exit if you want to apply the changes live.

      To note: 

      • If the Home Page has previously been edited then a pop-up will display asking if you want to edit the current draft or discard the draft and start afresh. 

      • Once you have selected your blocks you can rearrange their order on the Home Page by dragging and dropping their order on the side menu. 

      Editing a block 

      1. Navigate to the Co-creation Community and select the admin cog and then select Edit Home Page from the dropdown menu.
      2. Choose Edit the draft or Permanently delete the draft and start a new one, click Continue.
      3. Click on the block you want edit from the Content Blocks menu on the left hand side. This will highlight the block and reveal the block settings menu on the right hand side of the page.
      4. Depending on the block type, there will be different tabs displayed where you can configure the block settings
      5. To add text to blocks such as General block, click into the block itself and then type directly into the boxes, edit the format using the options available.
      6. Once you have made the required changes, use the preview feature to view what your Home Page will look like.
      7. Click Save and Exit if you haven’t finished building your Home Page or Publish and Exit if you want to apply the changes live.