Create a Shared Group
If you want to create a co-edit group and let the group members can co-edit all the content in this group, please contact Data Science Center (datascience+gis@ucla.edu) to ask the administrator to grant you the role of Group Admin. Once you have the role, you can follow the instructions to create a shared update group.
1. Create a shared update group
a. Log in your account and fing Group
b. Create
c. Name the group and give a short description (if needed). In Group designated, enable Shared update.
d. You can choose how you want users to join the group, By invitation, By request, or By adding themselves. By inivitation you need to manually add all users to this group. By request, you can share the group with them, and once they request, you just accept. By adding themselves, they can add themselves to this group. The third is the easiest way for instructors. But if you do not want to share the group with the public, you may want by invitation or by request.
2. Add users to the group. Go the new group page and click Invite users.
a. By invitation (when you have an existing group and the users in the existing group are those you want to add to the new group). Go to Organizations’ groups, and search Geospatial Humanities 2021, and select all users in this group and add them to a new group.
b. By invitation (you do not have an existing group that how all the users you want to add to the group. You need to search all users and add them to the group manually one by one
c. By request: you share the group with students or co-workers and ask them to requset to join the group.
d. Add by themselves. You share this group with students and they will add themselves to this group.