This is an example group created to demonstrate how the Canadian HSS Commons could be used to organize an academic or scholarly society, including by facilitating communication with society members, sharing member events and publications, or even planning an annual conference.

Example content has been added to demonstrate how each of tools and features in the menu to the left could be used, although there are many other ways they could be used, depending on the particular needs of a group.

Members: Clicking on this menu item takes to you a list of all the members in the group, including their roles. Different roles have different permission levels, which can be customized.

Announcements: Clicking on this menu item takes you to a list of all the announcements that have been shared with the group. One announcement has been marked as "sticky," meaning that it appears at the top of most of the group pages. Another one is red because it has been marked as high priority. Announcements can be set to display for only a set period of time and can be emailed to group members as well.

Calendar: The group calendar can be used to record events of interest to the entire team. Calendar events can be exported as ics files, and there's a built-in registration tool.

Collections: In this example, the Collections feature is used to gather the journal's publications into issues. Each collection is a separate issue. Items in a collection can include files and/or links, whether internal ones such as links to publications in the Repository or external ones.

Forum: The forum provides a space for group members to communicate. This example shows how categories can be used to organize threads. Forum posts can also be shared with team members by email.

Projects: In this example group, each project is a planning space for academic societies.

Within each project, there's a menu listing a number of tools and features.

• Updates: a list of all the changes to the project
• Team: a list of the project's team members and their roles
• Files: A project's files can be stored on the HSS Commons in the project's main repository (separate from the Canadian HSS Commons Repository). In this example, each issue has the same folder structure for organizing the various stages of the issue's production The project's main repository is useful for storing files at various stages of development. You can also connect to Google Drive, Dropbox, Github, and Amazon Web Services so that the project team has easy access to files stored offsite. This is useful, for example, if you documents that are updated by various team members regularly, such as a Google Sheets workbook used to track submissions, for example.
• To Do: A to do list for the project team that can be viewed as a pinboard or as a list. Tasks can be assigned to specific group members and assigned due dates, and team members can filter to do lists to see only the tasks assigned to them.
• Notes: Notes are wiki documents that can be edited by all team members. In this example, there's a note for a working table of contents for the issue, but notes could also be useful for collaborative meeting notes, working timelines, and other collaboratively edited documents. Team members can add comments to Notes, and different versions of a note can be viewed and compared.
• Publications: a list of publications published from the project. In this example, this could include all the articles in a specific issue of the journal, which are published to the Canadian HSS Commons Repository. All of a project's publications can be easily managed from this page, and publications made through projects are associated with that project and with the project's group in the publication page on the Canadian HSS Commons Repository.

Usage: This page shows statistics about the group, such as page views, number of members, number of discussions, number of calendar events, etc.

Files: This page is a place to store files relevant to group administration, such as documentation about the group, the image used for the group's logo, etc.

Activity: This is a log of group activity. The log is searchable, and although it is generated automatically, new items can be added manually.