Explore Page Customization

About the Explore Page

The Explore page is the front door into any community, and is highly customizable to create a unique experience for each campus or organization. The Explore page can be updated to be reflective of the most timely happenings within the community.

The Explore page can be customized using combinations of many “sections,” including dynamic sections that provide automatic updates and changing content.

Section Options

To customize an Explore page, select from a combination of the following sections:

Raft Spotlight

A Raft Spotlight section appears at the top of the Explore page, highlighting the members, content and channels of a single specific raft. The Raft Spotlight is a great option for highlighting a core raft and important content, and can be collapsed by users or expanding to view full content. Only one Raft Spotlight may appear on any Explore page.

Events

Manually Selected Events

Select a list of specific events to appear within a section; not dynamic.

Upcoming Events

All events sorted in chronological order by event time from all public rafts; dynamic.

Trending Events

Events sorted from all public rafts, sorted and displayed by trending / hot (those with the most engagement from user); dynamic.

Events from a Specific Raft / Multiple Rafts

Events from one or more specific rafts; dynamic.

Users / People Display

Manually Selected Users

Highlight specific users (i.e., staff, student leaders) in a section on Explore; not dynamic.

All Users

All users from within he community, displayed in random order; dynamic.

New Users

All users, shown in order of most recent to join; dynamic.

Trending Users

All users, shown in order of most active; dynamic.

Classmates

All users with the same class year as the viewing user; dynamic.

Specific Class

All users with a specific class year, i.e, Class of 2024; dynamic.

Posts & Polls

Manually Selected Posts

Select a list of specific post to appear within a section; not dynamic.

Latest News

All posts from a News raft, sorted by most recently published; dynamic.

Post from a Specific Raft / Multiple Rafts

Posts from one or more specific rafts; dynamic.

Trending Posts

Posts sorted from all public rafts, sorted and displayed by trending / hot (those with the most engagement from users); dynamic.

Poll Spotlight

Manually selected list of polls; not dynamic.

All Open Polls

List of all open polls on public rafts, ordered by those ending soonest; dynamic.

Rafts

Manually Selected Rafts

Select a list of specific raft to appear within a section; not dynamic.

New Rafts

All rafts sorted by most recently created; dynamic.

Rafts Not Yet Joined

All rafts the viewing user has not yet joined, sorted by member count; dynamic.

Trending Rafts

All rafts, sorted and displayed by trending / hot (those with the most engagement from users); dynamic.

My Rafts

All rafts that the view user is a member of; dynamic.