- Wondering how to teach in Facebook groups?
Facebook group units are a great tool
to organize your lessons.
By the end of this video,
you'll know exactly how to use them.
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So today, we're talking about
how to teach in a Facebook group.
What we're looking at inside of a Facebook group
are learning units.
And in some groups,
I've noticed that it's called learning
and in other groups it's called units.
So, you might see learning or you might see units
in the menu.
And what it does, is allows you to organize content
into units.
So, in our Frustrated to Fearless,
how to build a social media marketing plan
like a pro course,
all of the note downloads and the replays
were all organized in here so somebody could come in
say, oh I off final week four and pick them up.
But you could use these to organize anything you wanted,
any type of content that you have in a Facebook group
as opposed to somebody having to use the search tool
to find something or just scroll and aimlessly
to get to whatever it is they're looking for.
Let's talk about how to set them up.
First, you want to go to more here
and edit group settings and you scroll down under sections
social learning units.
If this is add, you wanna tap add to add it,
if it says remove, that means you've already got it.
Once you've got that setup,
head to the learning or units tab on the left,
and the main way to set this up is on a computer.
If you're trying to do it on a mobile device,
Facebook is not really given the tools to do that quite yet.
So now, I'm in my learning tab, I can click more settings
and within here, you've got a few things.
One, show progress.
This is where people can see which units they've completed,
which ones they haven't.
You can allow members to share when they complete a unit
if you wanna kind of track success
and you can make the learning tab the default tab
instead of discussion if you want to
by checking that box.
And then, once you have your units,
you can re-order them here.
Let me take you into a group that doesn't have any units yet
so you can kind of see how that looks.
And my first step would be to create a unit.
So, this might be unit one,
how to optimize your Instagram profile,
then you can add a description in this box if you'd like to.
Down here, there's a check mark.
If some units are required,
then you can make certain ones optional.
I go ahead, hit create unit and now it's here.
Now, I can go in and I can add all kinds of different media.
You can upload video files, PDFs, documents,
all kinds of different things.
So, you'd click in here and title it,
maybe it's lesson one, the ideal profile picture
then you can say, in this lesson,
and if it's a video lesson like I said, you can add videos,
you can upload files, you can create an event,
all kinds of everything, just like you would do
in a normal post anywhere on Facebook.
And you can schedule them as well if you want to.
As you can see, you can have more than one thing
within a unit, and you can add lots of details.
So for example, this is a replay I put in here
for a live course and I put in time codes
so people can skip to certain parts.
One more things, if you have had something
in the general discussion of your group
that you wanted to add to a unit,
the simplest way to do it,
you just the little down arrow here
on the upper right of your post
and then you can add it to a new unit
or any of the previously existing units.
So overall, it really gives you an idea
of how you can organize content
either for lessons in a group or anything else
that you might be organizing within your Facebook group.
So, how will you use Facebook group units?
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