Getting Started on ACD Connect
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Getting Started on ACD Connect
Welcome to ACD Connect!
We are pleased to announce that ACD Connect is now live. Connect is brand new online community, exclusively for ACD members which will replace yahoo egroups.
All existing yahoo egroups will continue to function, but will close down on 31 August 2018.
The new Connect platform will allow members to easily interact and communicate online with other College members as well as provide a space for committees and faculties to collaborate.
To get started we recommend watching this 10 minute introductory video:
Once you are ready, you can follow the 13 steps below:
Step 1: Login
Step 2: Navigate to your profile page
Step 3: Add Your Picture (Optional)
Step 4: Add a Bio (Optional)
Step 5: Adjust Your Privacy Settings
Step 6: Set up your Community Subscription
Step 7: Navigate to your Communities
Step 8: Post a message to your Community
Step 8a: How to insert an image
Step 9: Reply to a post
Step 10: Add a Contact
Step 11: Accept a Contact Request
Step 12: Search threads
Step 13: Searching threads
Help/FAQ
Step 1: Log in
There are two way you can login to Connect:
1. Go to: https://connect.dermcoll.edu.au/ and login with your College username and password.
OR
2. Login to the members area of the website and select ‘Connect’ from your Welcome menu drop-down.
Step 2: Navigate to your profile page
Once on the Home page of Connect, select the drop-down icon in the top right of the site. This will open a pop-up with two options. Select Profile.
Step 3: Add Your Picture (Optional)
Upload a picture of yourself to your profile, by selecting the Actions button and selecting Change Picture.
Step 4: Add a Bio (Optional)
Complete your profile and add a Bio by selecting the Add button.
Step 5: Adjust Your Privacy Settings
You can control what information in your profile can be seen by others.
Select the My Account drop down within your profile and select Privacy Settings.
For each item in your profile you can set which group of people can view it.
Options include:
Members Only: All Fellows and Trainees who have an account in Connect.
My Contacts: People you have accepted as contacts
Me Only: No one but you
Public: This option is not active, details will not be publicly available in connect.
Once you are happy with your setting, select the Save Changes button.
Step 6: Set up your Community Subscription:
By default all community subscriptions are set to Daily digest.
To change this, login to your ACD Connect account and go to your My Account drop down and select ‘My Subscriptions‘.
Then under Notifications Setting you can change your community email notification to either No Email, Real-Time or Daily Digest for each community.
Real time: sends an email every time a new message is posted.
Daily digest: sends one email to you each day, consolidating all of the posts from the previous day.
No Email: allows you to be part of the group without having emails sent to you. You can still post and read others’ messages by logging into the community site.
Step 7: Navigate to your Communities
There are multiple ways to navigate to your communities. Note: You will only see communities you have access to, or communities you are allowed to join.
Go to Communities in the main navigation bar. Select My Communities to view the communities you currently belong to. In the list, select any Community.
Five tabs exist within each community
Community Home: This page will show the latest discussion post or upcoming events within your Community.
Discussion: Selecting this tab will show you all posts that have been made in the community.
Library: Shows documents and attachments uploaded to the community.
Events: Shows all upcoming events for the group which can be added by the Admin of the Community (this is usually the Chair).
Members: This tab will show all the members within the group..
Step 8: Post a message to your Community:
There are 3 ways to post a message to your Community.
a) Within your Community
Select the Discussion tab within the group.
Click the Post New Message button.
b) Use the Navigation Bar
Select the Post a Message link from the Navigation bar
NOTE: You will need to select whic group you would like to post to from the Select Discussion drop down
c) Email your Community
Email to the community directly from your email client (e.g. Outlook, Gmail):
Your community email is displayed on the Community Home tab. An example of a community email is: [email protected]
How to insert text and an Image
Just like yahoo, users should always enter a subject and body of text.
All attachments uploaded to your Community will be uploaded to the library tab. To view attachments, members need to log in to Connect.
We suggest that members Insert images by selecting the insert image icon 
.
The insert image icon is available in most email clients located next to attach icon.
Selecting the Send button 
will submit your post to your Community.
Example Post:
Step 9: Reply to a post:
Just like posting a message, you can reply to a post two ways:
a) Select the Discussion tab within the group.
Click on an existing Thread Subject.
Click the Reply to discussion button 
and post your reply.
OR
b) Reply directly to an email that you received in your email client inbox.
Step 10: Add a Contact
Select the Member Directory link in the navigation bar.
Using the fields provided, search for another member.
In the list of member result, select the Add as Contact button.
Step 11: Accept a Contact Request
You may accept or decline the contact request which is sent to you via email or can also be found in you Profile Inbox.
Navigate to your Profile and from the My Account drop down select Inbox.
Select Contact Requests within the page and accept or decline the request.
Step 12: View upcoming events
If any events have been add to any of your Communities, they will appear on your upcoming events page.
Step 13: Searching threads
Member are able to search for topics in past threads by using the search bar 
. The search bar can be found in the site navigation bar a the top of every page.
Help/FAQ
A help tab is available on the site, alternatively you can use this link: https://connect.dermcoll.edu.au/faq
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Sam at the College on (02) 8741 4140.
