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Set up a standalone community

With the Digibiz24 community feature, you can create and manage your own communities. Communities offer numerous advantages for you, your business and your members.

A standalone community is the right choice if you want to offer your community as a separate product – independent of any course content.

Tip: Your community is an addition to a course? Set up a community for courses.

In this article, you will learn how to set up a standalone community in 5 steps:

  1. Create a "blank" course
  2. Create community
  3. Edit community settings
  4. Publish community
  5. Add members to the community
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Create a "blank" course

In Digibiz24, community members can only be assigned via a linked course. Every community must therefore be linked to a course.

To create a standalone community anyway, you can use a "blank" course:

  1. Create a course in Digibiz24 (see Create courses).

    The course serves as a pure course shell for your community. Nevertheless, we recommend that you add a short description about the community as a course description .

Create community

  1. Switch to the website in Digibiz24 where you want to create a community.
  2. In the left menu bar, click Communities.
  3. Click Create community.

    Alternatively: If you have already created a community, click Add in the header bar.

  4. Enter a Community name.
  5. Click Create community.

    The community settings open. Edit the community settings, to personalize your community.

Edit community settings

  1. Optional: If you are not already in the community settings , go to the overview page of your communities and click the threedot_dreipunkt_more.svg icon > Edit settings on your community.
  2. Edit the community settings (see Overview: Community settings).
  3. Click on Save.

    The overview page of your communities opens. Publish your community, so that your members have access.

Overview: Community settings

General settings  
Community name Change the name of your community here
Community path Enter a URL here under which your community should be accessible
Community description Enter a description here that should be displayed to your members in the header area of your community and on the overview page in the member area
Membership  
Course members Select your "blank" course here
Presentation  
Primary color

Select a primary color here to present the community to match your branding
Banner image

Upload a banner image here to be displayed to your members in the community

Publish community

  1. Optional: If you are not already on the overview page of your communities, open the overview page of your communities.
  2. On your community, click Draft > Publish.

    Your community is published.

Add members to the community

There are two options to add members:

  • Automatically via Digistore24
    When someone purchases the "blank" course through Digistore24, they automatically get access to the community (see Delivering a course).
  • Add member manually
    If someone purchases the "blank" course outside of Digistore24, you can manually add them to the community by importing them into the "blank" course (see Importing members).

    This option is also suitable for moving an existing community to Digibiz24.

Next step

Edit your community guidelines, to be able to moderate content.