Social learning helps your cohort see and hear from each other between sessions. The Social Learning page brings together everything that connects your learners: a feed for posts and announcements, a directory of who's in the program, and any LinkedIn or WhatsApp groups you run alongside it.

The page appears when Social Learning is turned on in the Experience tab of Details & Settings. To open it, open your program and select Edit. Under Program Overview in the left-hand menu, select Program Set Up, then select Social Learning.

Turn on at least one option on this page before you activate the program.

In the Program

These options control what learners see inside Guroo Academy.

• Posts & announcements - a feed for the cohort, with program news from your team and conversation between sessions instead of over email. Turn on Learners can start a post to let learners start their own threads. When it's off, only your program team can start threads, but learners can still comment.
• Cohort directory - lets learners see who else is in the program, including their name, role, organisation and a short bio. Learners only appear once they've consented to their details being shared.

Social Media Groups

Social media groups are groups you run outside Academy, on LinkedIn or WhatsApp. You'll need to create the group on LinkedIn or WhatsApp first. Learners see a join card with the group link, and a QR code if you add one, on their program page.

Program Group

A program group is for this cohort while the program runs. Learners are prompted to join it from the program page. To add one:

1. Turn on Program group.
2. Choose the Platform: LinkedIn or WhatsApp.
3. Enter the Group Link. Make sure to include the https:// at the start of the link.
4. Under What Learners See With the Link, say what the group is for and who else is in it.
5. Upload a QR Code if you have one. This is optional.

Alumni Group

An alumni group is a standing group that outlives the cohort, so learners can keep their network after the program ends. Alumni groups are usually shared across programs or cohorts.

1. Turn on Alumni group.
2. Choose Existing to link one of your platform's alumni groups, or Custom to set up a group only this program uses. A program links to one alumni group at a time, so choosing Custom replaces any existing group.
3. Choose the Availability: Now, After program end date, After program completion or From a specific date.
4. If you chose Existing, select the Group.

A few things to know about availability:

• After program completion opens the group to each learner as they complete the program, not to the whole cohort at once.
• After program end date and From a specific date use the program's time zone.
• After program end date is only available when the program has an end date and isn't self-paced.

Existing alumni groups can be edited in Alumni Groups, in Program Admin. Changes apply to every program linked to that group.

The banner at the top of the page shows how many required items are complete. Select it to see each item and whether it's done.

Tip: Select the g icon on the right of the page to open the Guroo Help panel. It explains each setting on the page, based on how your program is currently set up.