Clicking My Place, My Groups displays a list of the CNAV groups to which you currently belong. You can click the envelope icons on this screen to quickly and easily send email to the other people in any of these groups. You can also view a list (with or without photos) of the members of any group to which you belong. The descriptions shown to the right of each group indicate whether you are a [member], [owner], [editor], and/or [viewer] of each group.
From the My Groups screen, you can browse through the available groups. You can also create a new group or join an existing group to which you don't currently belong. You can also edit a group for which you are the owner or a designated editor.
For each group listed, CNAV displays the following information:
Institution approved icon: This icon () displays only for those official groups that have received your institution's seal of approval.
Group Name/Description: This column lists the name and a brief description of each group. To discover who owns a particular group, click on the hyperlinked group name. The Group Information screen displayed will include the name of the person or group that owns this group as well as icon links that allow you to email the group members and enter the group discussion board, as well as contact information for the group owner.
Request links: This column provides one or more change request links that allow you to change how or whether you access this group. For a standard group to which you are permitted to unsubscribe, [unsubscribe] will appear in this column. For a group with which a digest is associated, you will see either [read digest via email] or [read digest via cnav]. Note that these links form the two sides of a toggle switch. By default, CNAV assumes that you wish to read all digests using My Digests or My Groups. That is, CNAV assumes that you wish to read digests via CNAV. If you wish to receive a digest via email instead, click on the [read digests via email] link. When you ARE reading a digest via email, CNAV provides a link to [read digest via cnav].
Member contact icons: These icons allow you to directly email the group members, or arrange a conference call. (Conference calling is available only if Internet telephony is enabled for your campus.)
Group member list: The camera icon allows you to list the members of each group, with or without photos.
Edit icon: If, and only if, you are an approved editor for the listed group, you can edit that group by clicking on the Edit (clipboard) icon.
Delete icon: This icon displays if you are authorized to delete this group. You can only delete groups for which you are an [owner].
View upcoming group events: This icon () links you directly into CNAV's event system. Click this icon to display a list of all future events for which this group is listed as an owner.
Membership status: This column indicates whether you are an [owner] or [viewer] of the group shown. If nothing appears in this column, you are simply a [member] of the group with no special privileges.
Note that My Groups is divided into two sets. The first set of groups includes only manually-created groups (those created by yourself or another CNAV user). The second set of groups includes only system-generated groups. A system-generated group is automatically created and updated by CNAV based on the contents of the databases that CNAV accepts as input. Some common system-generated groups include all students, all faculty members, all on-campus CNAV users, all alumni, etc. Within both sets of groups, inactive or expired groups are marked with a yellow background.