MLA Commons | Help & How-To | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/ Activity feed for the group, Help & How-To. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1689f8a7e78871b30c45ed39e4a608b1 Katina Rogers edited the blog post Using Groups: A Video Walk-Through in the group Help & How-To https://howtouse.mla.hcommons.org/2013/10/18/groups-video/ Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:06:02 -0400 This video walk-through will help you get started using groups on MLA Commons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5YwxxxWOQ&rel=0

In the video, Katina Rogers shows you how to find, join, and participate in groups. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Please note: This video refers to an earlier version of MLA Commons. The…[Read more]

]]> b10f9fe2700bbba49880a967ec39b4f3 Katherine Kim wrote a new blog post How to Start a Group Blog in the group Help & How-To http://howtouse.mla.hcommons.org/2014/08/21/how-to-start-a-group-blog/ Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:22:12 -0400 ThumbnailIf you are an administrator of an MLA Commons group, creating a blog is a great way to share information with group members as well as with other readers. For instance, the MLA International Bibliography group […]

]]> bd4153b69063f09a2e8d79e4b3452020 Katherine Kim wrote a new blog post Building Engagement within a Group in the group Help & How-To http://howtouse.mla.hcommons.org/2014/08/21/building-engagement/ Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:45:30 -0400 Now that you’ve created a group and assigned user roles, you may be wondering how to increase the activity level among your group members. Groups are an easy way for people to exchange ideas, collaborate on […]

]]> e2a37d00f9333ffa8f5d78fcf7fd277c Katina Rogers replied to the topic Deleting Forum postings in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/deleting-forum-postings/#post-2428 Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:59:55 -0500 Dear Michelle,

All set—the unwanted posts have been removed. (I had already removed the two in Postcolonial Studies based on your first message—sorry for the confusion!)

Best,
Katina

]]> 0 0a7191a7e6c743b80aef77e811006645 Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Deleting Forum postings in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/deleting-forum-postings/#post-2424 Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:56:28 -0500 Dear Katina,

I would very much appreciate your deleting those posts.  There is one under Women’s Studies and under Gay Studies, both titled “Join the Women’s Caucus at MLA!”

Weirdly enough, the two in Postcolonial Studies are gone.

With thanks,

Michelle

]]> 0 54a91be1fa2639f3ee24174488d12bbd Katina Rogers replied to the topic Deleting Forum postings in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/deleting-forum-postings/#post-2421 Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:37:43 -0500 Hi Michelle,

Only group administrators can delete forum posts. More information on why that’s the case is available on our FAQ page, along with more details about why those unwanted characters appear in your post and how to prevent it from happening in the future.

I’d be happy to delete the unwanted posts for you. You can then re-post the same…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d981f7dd94709f550df34d8d1d7c0c5 Katina Rogers replied to the topic Duplicate topic detected message in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/duplicate-topic-detected-message/#post-2413 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:18:51 -0500 Hi Michelle,

The system won’t allow you to post an identical message in multiple groups. The easiest way to work around this is to add a unique sentence to the beginning of the post for each group—for instance, “The following announcement may be of interest to members of the [XYZ] group.” One unique word in the post should be enough to prevent t…[Read more]

]]> 0 726a35147be9dfa6a425815af23ee118 Michelle A. Massé started the topic Duplicate topic detected message in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/duplicate-topic-detected-message/ Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:13:56 -0500 I just figured out the HTML and Word paste issue, but as I try to send an announcement to the forum section of groups to which I belong, I am getting the following message:  “Duplicate topic detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!” There is no original message posted, so there can be no duplicate.  I’ve tried re-titling the top…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e68d5b580e6637e4cd0f27511a2f72a Michael Ullyot replied to the topic Editing recent posts in the Forums in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/editing-recent-posts-in-the-forums/#post-2142 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:55:19 -0400 And FWIW, the text editor *is* cleaner.

]]> 0 c50ce12b3c49c3d4ab8b0e3fd8711516 Michael Ullyot replied to the topic Editing recent posts in the Forums in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/editing-recent-posts-in-the-forums/#post-2140 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:53:43 -0400 Ah, of course. That makes sense. I added a comment below my Forum posting to clarify the post.

Thanks for this!

yours
Michael

]]> 0 5b65f01d389d3dccf725aee818a784d5 Katina Rogers replied to the topic Editing recent posts in the Forums in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/editing-recent-posts-in-the-forums/#post-2138 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:48:30 -0400 Hi Michael,

The most common reason to see formatting code or HTML in a post is when the text has been copied (usually from Microsoft Word) into the visual editor on MLA Commons. The best way to avoid it in the future is to use the text editor, rather than the visual editor. More information is available in this FAQ post.

The Commons doesn’t s…[Read more]

]]> 0 eca40c7e1464c83c0d767372e11a7169 Michael Ullyot started the topic Editing recent posts in the Forums in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/editing-recent-posts-in-the-forums/ Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:35:41 -0400 I’ve posted a couple of times in my Groups’ forums (Shakespeare and Digital Humanities), and there are two issues:

1 / Some of my posts are full of html tags that I didn’t intend.

2 / When I noticed a typo in one of my posts, I couldn’t go in to edit/correct it.

Any suggestions?

]]> 0 e433f96278d4a34a840bde8bb2ffab98 Katina Rogers posted an update in the group Help & How-To: Ever have unwanted characters appear in your posts? […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/46555/ Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:00:32 -0400 Ever have unwanted characters appear in your posts? Wondering whether you can edit comments you’ve posted? We’ve addressed both questions in new FAQ entries: http://faq.mla.hcommons.org/.

]]> 0 42db7c0c56241d9a7c1504151b0ea2fe M. Stanley Majors replied to the topic What are you trying to do? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/what-are-you-trying-to-do/page/2/#post-1463 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 03:22:18 -0400 Hi Dan –

I’m trying to…

1) Search for contacts by division (for example, only see those users in my division – German).

2) Browse groups by type (for example, view only public groups, or only […]

]]> 0 4cdd74240f0784f4a92bc6fb9f4e12e6 Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic What are you trying to do? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/what-are-you-trying-to-do/#post-1314 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:08:44 -0500 Hey Dan–Yes, I am now on as admin, but aren’t the other members of the group supposed to be admins also? Thanks VERY much for staying on this…
Margaret

]]> 0 9bcabafc977deecd8485b1f4f7b255dc Alex Gil replied to the topic What are you trying to do? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/what-are-you-trying-to-do/#post-1310 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:10:10 -0500 Thanks, Anna!

]]> 0 33016e3b787d1d56b5875d8a3d3db50b Anna Chang replied to the topic What are you trying to do? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/what-are-you-trying-to-do/#post-1309 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:08:59 -0500 Hi Alex,

 

Sorry for the trouble. Yes, we’ve had to forward this glitch to our developers. We’ll let you know as soon as it’s fixed so you can log out and log in to test.

 

Thanks for your […]

]]> 0 b9e726058994b03befc37b87008a8529 Alex Gil replied to the topic What are you trying to do? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/what-are-you-trying-to-do/#post-1303 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:10:39 -0500 Hi Anna,

I had already disabled all of my MLA memberships when I wrote my original post. They still linger in my MLACommons account.  I don’t think they disappear automatically.

Thank you for your response […]

]]> 0 b8106e29215c01c7e96503ecedf7784b Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic What are you trying to do? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/what-are-you-trying-to-do/#post-1302 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:06:03 -0500 Hey Anna or Dan.

Still waiting on admins on about 15 of the 19 groups I am in. travel literature, postcolonial, and so many others do not have admin. Autobiography has an administrator, and a couple others, […]

]]> 0 dc9b444553d00dd22a8f94e36985b6e4 Anna Chang replied to the topic What are you trying to do? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/what-are-you-trying-to-do/#post-1301 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:59:22 -0500 Hi Alex,
To opt out of divisions and discussion groups, you’ll actually need to go to mla.org, click on My MLA, and update your memberships there. Of course, we’re hoping that as more members join the Commons, […]

]]> 0 4ac7434318a6c6e1b33c98b70321976d Alex Gil replied to the topic What are you trying to do? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/what-are-you-trying-to-do/#post-1298 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:40:31 -0500 Hi, Dan, I had the same question as Margaret. I have a bunch of “groups” that were just transfered over from the old MLA site automatically. These are most, if not all, ghost towns. Is it possible to just opt out […]

]]> 0 a3a7c62af9006cf40ef898b7552c8bb0 Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic For members of the executive committees of MLA Discussion groups in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/for-members-of-the-executive-committees-of-mla-discussion-groups/#post-1283 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:25:49 -0500 Yes, Dan, that is the problem.  NO ONE is admin of that site.  The corner box says “no admin” !

 

Thanks for checking it out!

]]> 0 e01e979013c9cd24176d6614c0444f26 Albrecht Classen started the topic Relevance of the Humanities: The Middle Ages in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/relevance-of-the-humanities-the-middle-ages/ Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:53:31 -0500 Hello,

I published an article on the importance of the Humanities, arguing from a medieval perspective. The article appeared in Alfinge: Revista de Filología 24 (2012): 9-30.

I’d be happy to share a PDF. […]

]]> 0 4e223ed07a15dd610bfe237e39e22683 Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic What are you trying to do? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/what-are-you-trying-to-do/#post-1271 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:11:31 -0500 Dan. There is no administrator! I don’t know who started the group–I was assuming that the PTF discussion group “forum”was simply imported to this MLA commons group, but not sure.  We need an administrator! I am […]

]]> 0 6773d666a3d9408e434a2287b2d781bc Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic What are you trying to do? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/what-are-you-trying-to-do/#post-1265 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:32:11 -0500 Hi Dan! I am interested in the providing links and relevant media articles and adjunct initiatives to the MLA part timers, so that they are more familiar with what is happening out in adjunctville. […]

]]> 0 a3d1c630cc08ff5147aa524d2357aa6b Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic "Active group" designation? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/active-group-designation/#post-1253 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:33:37 -0500 Yes, I see what you mean, Dan. Just saying that I am not interested so much in the “activity” that someone joined a group, as which groups are using the site for serious discussions. Can’t that just be flipped? […]

]]> 0 d5800bc2370df31f21a2929686dc9abd Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic "Active group" designation? in the forum Welcome Group http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/welcome-group/forum/topic/active-group-designation/ Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:22:12 -0500 I was wondering how the “active group” designation is made. It seems like the active group is simply someone “joining” a group rather than “using” a group–posting, linking to blogs, etc. Wouldn’t activity being […]

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