Post comments or files on the Community

There are two different ways to post portfolio items in the community.

• Community: From the community, you can directly post a status update.
  • The status update can include text and an attachment. The attachment becomes immediately visible in the status update.
  • A status update is recognizable because the text is displayed first, followed by the attachment. In contrast, with portfolio items, the visual order is reversed.

Note: This functionality might be disabled. If you notice it is missing, contact an administrator to confirm.

• Portfolio Sharing in the Community: Items from your portfolio can be directly shared on the community timeline by adjusting their privacy settings. This makes the item visible to everyone in any of your groups via the timeline.
  • If you select Visible only to teachers, the item will appear on the community timeline for teachers but will remain hidden from other students.

Who Can See My Community Posts?

Sharing updates or portfolio items on the community timeline isn’t automatically visible to everyone in your groups. Visibility can vary based on your settings:

• Specific: You can share your post with specific groups.

• Status Update: Share your post with a specific group by selecting the group under Stream. Only members of that group will see the post in their community timeline.
• Portfolio: Set the privacy setting to Visible only to the people and groups I select, then choose the group(s) you want to share with.

• General: You can share your post with everyone in your group.

• Status Update: Do not specify a group under Stream. Instead, click Share directly, and the post will be visible to everyone in all your groups.
• Portfolio Item: Choose the privacy setting Visible to my school. This will make the item visible to everyone in the community.

Note: Sometimes, the administrator at your school may have configured the General sharing option so that not only the groups you are part of can see the contributions, but also an entire grade level or the whole school. Check with your school administrator for clarification.