In our first version of Maven's community platform, every course will come pre-set with a group of channels (details below). In the future, you'll be able to customize these channel names. We've scoured hundreds of cohorts to determine which channels foster the most valuable engagement, so we strongly believe these are your best channels to start with.

🔒 admins - exclusively for instructor and course admins. Students cannot see this channel.

📢 announcements - instructors and course admins can write announcements for the entire cohort. Often, you'll use these for pre- and post-workshop instructions.

💬 general - where most discussions will take place related to your course content. Also a great place to share articles, videos, and any other related resources.

👋 intros - a good place for students to start, you can get students to fill out the template and introduce themselves at the start of the course.

💭 questions - students ask questions to each other which often prompts lively discussion. You can also prompt students to ask questions in here during your live workshop instead of Zoom chat which can often get overwhelming quickly.

💪 share-your-work - whether it's during a live workshop or an asynchronous project, get students to share what they're working on so that you and others can comment and give feedback. Tip: get students to post their project and comment on two others.