Featured Features 

Facilitating Conversation and Interaction

We’ve added some powerful new features helping facilitate conversation and interaction in Gradual in both the Forum and on content. Check out our interaction-focused features below!

@ Mentions in Forum

Members can now use the "@" symbol to mention others in forum posts and comments. This action not only tags their profile in the post or comment but it sends them a notification to drive engagement in relevant discussions. It’s really easy to use - simply type "@" followed by a member's name, then select their profile from the suggested list. Learn more about mentions and tagging members in the forum here. 

Forum Boards in Clubs

You can now nest your forum conversations within Clubs! Chapters and interest groups can have their own forum board with different topics hosted within the club page. This is great for subject-specific or chapter focused conversations and helping keep your main forum organized and simple. Learn more about how to build in-club forum boards here. 

Note: If you have forum posts that are specific to a club that currently sit at the community level, follow the steps outlined here to move them to the club board. 

Content engagement - comments and reactions

Members can now engage with your videos, blogs and resources through reactions and comments! Spark conversation and gather user-input on select videos, blogs and resources or offer it by default on all via system wide settings. Learn all about content comments here. 

More Forum Enhancements

Board Topics

Board Topics offers a new way to organize your forum boards visually. Customize topics or assign community tags as board topics, which will appear at the top of each board for easy navigation and filtering. Learn more about board topics here. 

Board Moderators

Garner some help from your members to moderate specific forum boards by assigning them as board moderators. These board moderators can take action to pin, feature, and delete posts made by members within the boards they are assigned - this is especially important for in-club forum boards where club leaders should be granted access to just their board and the member discussions within. 

Learn more about board moderators and how to add them here. 

Expanded Forum Reactions

You can customize the reactions available to members in the forum - choose from vote or like mode, and add up to 9 additional reactions to the list of options for forum engagement. Learn more about how to set your reactions in forum here. 

Other Features

Q&A supported in Roundtables

You can now host native Q&A in roundtables at the community level, or roundtables hosted within livestream or hybrid events. Learn more about Q&A here. 

Attendee microphone control in breakout rooms

Hosts and staff can now control the microphones of participants in breakout rooms in meetings, webinars, or roundtables. Hosts or staff can ‘Mute-all’ breakout room participants or ‘Ask all to unmute’ from the Mic Controls button in the upper right of the page during the live group call. Learn all about the host and staff controls and features here. 

Code of Conduct, Privacy Policy, and Terms Visibility

Your community’s policies and terms are now accessible from the member profile drop down menu in the community. Learn more about how to add or update these policies to your community here. 

Hide Features at the club level

There are now more options to customize the features visible or available in clubs, with permissions granted either at the community level, or available to the club administrations who are added in club permissions. Learn more about these access levels, customization and features here.