🎉 We absolutely welcome and celebrate new communities at MedAll!

You can create a community for your society, association, hospital, department, group or area of interest. We ask that you keep communities relevant and focused on healthcare, and adhere to our code of conduct, rules and guidelines.

How to create a community

Click the 'create community' button found on the community landing page.

Community name

Start by giving your community a name. If there are any similar community names we ask you review these before continuing – please try to avoid duplication of a topic or speciality.

Description

This is a great space to communicate what your intentions for the community are and why people should become a member or follow your community. It will be shown on the community about page.

Community type

Please list your community under one of the following types:

Healthcare Community
University
Professional body
Training or teaching organisation
Undergraduate society
Postgraduate society
Hospital
Hospital department

Contact email

This will be shown on your community 'about' page, so you can be contacted directly if your attendees or members/followers need support.

Community avatar

This will be shown on your community pages and across the MedAll platform. It helps brand your community and makes you stand out.

Background image

This will be added as a background banner to your community pages. It helps brand your community and makes you stand out. We recommend uploading the highest file size, you can, minimum spec is 1200×300 pixels.

Tags

It is recommended you add tags and keywords to help make your community more searchable and to give other MedAll users context.

Visibility

A committee has two visibility settings, either public or private.

Public visibility settings include:

Your content will be visible to everyone by default
Individual visibility control is still available at content level
Your community & content will show up in MedAll site search
Your community & content could be promoted across MedAll platform

Private visibility settings include:

Your content will be visible to your members only by default
Individual visibility control is still available at content level
The people and about section will be publicly visible
Your community will show up in MedAll site search
Your content will only show up in MedAll site search for your members
Your community & content will not be promoted across MedAll platform

Responsibilities

Community owners (and administrator) are responsible for reviewing content within your community flagged for moderation. Please refer our code of conduct, rules and guidelines.

Changing ownership or adding administrators

To add/change ownership or invite/add any new administrators to your community please log in via our organisation portal.

Use the links on the left hand side to navigate to the 'Membership' section.

Either select a user from the members list or invite new users using the invitation page.

Use the drop-down menu to change their role from a 'Member' to 'Administrator or 'Owner'.