How to Enable Community for Your Online Course

Step-by-step guide to enable the Community feature in Embedin, configure it for your course, and launch it with a clean first-week setup.

How to Enable Community for Your Online Course
Diego Oliveira

Diego Oliveira

Aug 5, 2026

How to Enable the Community Feature in Embedin

If you are using Embedin to host your course experience, you can enable a native Community space directly inside the course.

That means learners can create posts, comment, and engage without leaving your learning environment.

This guide walks through the practical setup.

What happens when Community is enabled

When Community is turned on in course settings, Embedin enables a dedicated course community tied to that course.

From the learner side, Community appears inside the course workspace. Depending on user state and enrollment access, learners can view and interact with posts.

Before you enable it

Have these ready first:

This makes your launch cleaner and avoids opening an empty community.

Step-by-step: Enable Community in Embedin

1. Open your course settings

Go to your course in Embedin and open the settings area for that course.

2. Find the Community toggle

In course settings, locate the community option and enable it.

Under the hood, this saves course settings with Community enabled and prepares the course community space.

3. Confirm it in course preview

Open the course preview or embedded course page and check that:

4. Seed the community before announcing

Create 2 to 3 starter posts so learners do not land on an empty page.

Good starter posts:

Recommended launch checklist

Use this checklist right after enabling:

Final thought

Enabling Community in Embedin is quick. Running it well is where outcomes happen.

Start by enabling the feature, seed it with a few strong prompts, and keep a consistent moderation rhythm. That combination is usually enough to turn passive learners into active participants.

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