Create and manage rooms

Your community is made of rooms. A room is a place with a purpose: a course, a question, a group. You’ll find them under Community.

Create a room

Click Create room. The wizard has three steps.

1. Choose type

• Discussion — everyone can post. The most common one.
• Announcements — only you post. Good for important things that shouldn’t drown.
• Events — a gathering point for meetings and times.
• Resources — material and links that should be easy to find again.

2. Details

Name, link name, description, icon and cover image.

Write the description as an invitation, not as a heading: “This is where we share how this week’s practice felt.” It’s the only instruction many people read.

3. Access

Here you decide who gets in. Four modes:

Mode	Who gets in
Open	Every member of your workspace.
Paid membership	People who pay a subscription for this room. Requires a connected Stripe account.
Linked to course	Only people with access to a specific course.
Private	Only people you invite manually.

If you pick Paid membership without Stripe connected, Idun Blue says so and links you there. See Connect Stripe.

Click Create room.

Inside a room

Once you’ve opened a room, six tabs sit across the top:

• Overview — how it’s going.
• Members — who’s in it, with the ability to add a member, switch a role between Member and Admin, or block someone.
• Posts — everything written, with filters for All, Visible and Hidden.
• Engagement — who takes part and how much.
• Moderation — reports for this room. See Moderation.
• Settings — name, description and access.

Pin what matters

When you write something everyone should see — the guidelines, the welcome, this week’s question — tick Pin to the top of the room as you publish. The post moves to the top and stays there.

A pinned welcome post is the cheapest way to make a quiet room less intimidating.

How many rooms?

Fewer than you think. An empty room looks abandoned, and ten empty rooms look like an abandoned house.

Start with one. Make the next one when the first gets too broad — not before.

Tips

• Post yourself, every week, at the start. A community doesn’t begin on its own; it begins because someone goes first.
• Ask questions that can be answered in one sentence. “How did it feel?” gets more replies than “Reflect on this week’s theme”.
• If the room is linked to a course, say so in the course: “talk about this in the room”. The connection doesn’t exist in her head until you say it.