Membership Questions play an important part in helping admins maintain the privacy of their group. They are created by admins in the final step of the start-a-group process and are intended for people interested in joining the group.
For private and closed groups, this feature is particularly helpful. It allows admins to screen prospective members and decide who to admit based on the answers provided.
Asking membership questions not only helps you maintain the privacy of your group, but also helps familiarize yourself with new members. They are also helpful in identifying members or how they’re connected to the group. Because GroupSpot does not require full names when creating an account, these extra details about a member often provide helpful information needed to identify someone. Membership questions can be added during the start-a-group process or later from your Group Settings. Let’s look at both.
On the final step of the start-a-group process, new Owners arrive at the Membership Questions screen. Here they will be able to ask as many questions as needed from their prospective members.
1. Click on the blue + button to get started.
2. Type in your membership question and choose how you want prospective members to reply to the question. The default is a Text answer, but you can also change this to Checkboxes, Multiple Choice, Date, Time, and Attachment depending on the nature of your question.
3. Once you’ve filled in your question and selected the type of reply, choose DONE to add the question to your list.
4. Repeat this process until you have all the membership questions you need to screen new membership requests.
In the event you didn’t add Membership Questions when your group was created, you can easily add them or edit them after the fact.
1. From your group menu, choose Group Settings.
2. From your list of Owner Settings, choose Privacy.
3. Near the top of the list, click into your Membership Questions.
4. To add or edit new questions, just select the blue New Question button and follow the steps above.
5. If you need to reorganize the order of your questions, select the blue Sort button to move questions around.
6. If you need to edit a question, click on the question and make your edits before hitting DONE.
7. Once everything is in order, click on the green DONE button to save your changes.
