Introduction
Groups provide a great space for discussion and updates on clubs, sports teams, or other school groups. Groups are similar to Classes, with a less-academic focus. Each group has at least one teacher assigned as a moderator.
Members can access the Groups they are a part of by clicking the Groups icon in the Navigation bar of the mobile app.
On a browser, the My Groups Panel is located on the bottom left corner of the Home Screen.
Click Find More to browse more groups in the school.
- Students can search for a club they’re interested in or a day of the week they are available. If the group description outlines when the group meets, the group will appear in their search.
- Groups can be open or closed, as indicated by a lock icon. Students can join groups by accessing Edsby from a browser.
Note: Only staff members can create groups. If students are part of a club, team, or other group of students and they would like a dedicated Edsby Group created, talk to the teachers or principal! Edsby Groups provide a great space for discussion, collaboration, and updates to keep each club or team organized and up-to-date.
Open Groups
Students can freely jump in and out of open groups. However, they will only be notified of new posts in the groups if they join as a member. Click Join in the top right of an open group to join it.
Members are notified of unread posts in a group through a red bubble counter appearing next to the group icon.
Closed Groups
Closed groups have a lock beside their name. To join a closed group, click the group and fill out the request. A moderator of the group will review and confirm requests before students can officially join the group.
Review the status of a request in the Mailbox.
When the group moderator approves or rejects the request, students will receive a notification in their mailbox and the request status will change accordingly.
The group will appear in the My Groups panel immediately once a request has been approved.
Invitations and Automatic Membership
Moderators can quickly add students to groups. If they are invited to a group, they are provided with options to Accept or Decline in the My Groups Panel.
However, sometimes moderators automatically add students into a group, in which case students do not have to respond to a request.
Students may have noticed the first time they logged into Edsby, they were already a member of a few groups. This is because students are automatically added to major school groups at the beginning of the year.
Using Groups
Groups include a group Feed, a group Calendar, Group Members with those Recently Active listed first, a Knowledge Base, important Pinned Items, and a Group Library.
The group screen on a browser looks like the picture below, with the same functionality as groups on mobile.
- If the group moderator has enabled students to post, post a note or poll in the group by clicking the Compose icon in the top right of the group.
- Like, Reply, or report posts as inappropriate in the feed by clicking the plus icon beside the post.
Hover over the post on a browser to reveal these same options.
Leaving a Group
Students have the option to leave groups, except those they have been automatically added to. To leave a group and delete it from a desktop, open the group page when logged in with a browser and click Unsubscribe. Students cannot unsubscribe from or leave a group from the Edsby app at this time.
Note: Students automatically enrolled in groups will only be unsubscribed if they no longer meet the criteria for automated membership. If they click the Unsubscribe button from within a group they’ve been automatically added to, the group will temporarily be removed from the My Groups Panel. However, the group will be added to the My Groups Panel again the next day.