Setting Up Terms of Use for Community Platform Users

Introduction

Administrators can create, edit, and manage the Terms of Use that users must accept before using the Community platform. This requires users to accept the Terms of Use their first time accessing Community after being enabled. Once accepted, they will not be prompted to accept again unless the Terms of Use are updated.

Setting Up the Terms of Use as an Administrator

Where to find?

1. Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner to navigate to the Site Settings and other Admin Tools.

2. Under Layout, click on General.

3. Scroll down to the “Terms of Use” section.

Enabling the Terms of Use

Use the toggle in the upper right corner of this section to control when the Terms of Use is active or not. 

 

Dialog Title

The dialog title will be “sticky” at the top of the Terms of Use popup.

Text Area

There are several tools that can be used within the text editor:

• Various font styles, paragraph styles, bullets, etc.

• Add images

• Embed videos using a YouTube or Vimeo URL

• Hyperlink text to additional resources outside of the Community platform

Preview

A preview option is available prior to saving. 

Preview example

 

Being Prompted to Acknowledge and Accept the Terms of Use as a Community User

• Users will need to scroll through the entire Terms of Use text in order to activate the Accept and Decline buttons.

• Users will be required to Accept in order to proceed to the Community platform. If they Decline, they will not be able to enter. 

 

Updating the Terms of Use

The Terms of Use module requires users to re-accept the Terms of Use when the content has been modified or updated.