Create your teacher community on explainx

Teachers can create a community on explainx for ongoing questions, discussions, events, and shared resources. Sign in with your explainx account and open Create a community. The account that creates it becomes the owner.

Set up your community

1. Enter a Community name that your learners will recognize.
2. Add a Description explaining the topic and who belongs here. This description can appear on your public profile if you publish one later.
3. Use Member notice for practical instructions: where to ask questions, what to include, or your next office hours. This notice is for members.
4. Choose a Community color, then select Create community.

Your community starts private and unpublished. You get three spaces: Announcements, Introductions, and Questions & ideas. You can change the name, description, member notice, and color in Settings.

Prepare the first conversations

Open Conversations and select Write a post. Add an introduction in Introductions and a short announcement telling members where to ask for help. A useful first question could be: “What are you trying to build this week, and where are you stuck?”

Keep the initial structure small. Organize spaces and discussions when you need a separate place for projects, feedback, or a specific topic. Use Resources for material people will need again and Events for scheduled sessions.

When you are ready, invite learners and your teaching team. For a community people can find and join themselves, publish a public profile.

Choose between a community and a classroom

A teacher community has its own membership and can continue across workshops. You manage who joins it. Your existing workshop classrooms belong to individual workshop runs and use their enrollment rules.

Creating a community does not move classroom conversations or automatically add your workshop learners. Eligible paid workshop enrollment can be offered as a joining option when you configure paid community access.

Return through My communities to open the communities you have joined or manage. Public Questions are a separate area: check where you are posting before sharing anything intended only for your learners.