Community Mode

Overview

Community Mode shows what your synagogue is reading: every aliyah a member has committed to read, organized by upcoming parsha date, along with the readings that are still looking for a reader and a chat for the whole community.

Your own bookmarks are not here. Study mode opens on your bookmark list, which is where you manage and work through them.

Community Calendar

The list groups readings by parsha, earliest first. Each entry shows the reader's name, the aliyah, its verse range, the reading cycle, and the scroll if your synagogue has more than one. A reading with a mentor shows who is helping. Use the reader filter above the list to see one person's readings.

Only readings marked as Reading in Study mode appear here; an aliyah someone is studying without committing to read it in synagogue stays private to them.

Pending Invitations

Readings that a member has invited someone to take, and that nobody has answered yet, appear in their own section. Anyone can see who invited whom; only the person who sent an invitation can cancel it.

Click the round + at the foot of the list and choose Invite to Read to invite someone to a reading (its other row, Message, opens the community chat). This is a peer invitation: the reading becomes the recipient's own bookmark, with no mentor attached. A mentor who wants to follow a student's progress invites from Teach mode instead. The form also offers Copy reading link, a link anyone can open to add the reading to their own bookmarks.

Community Chat

The panel on the right is a chat shared by everyone in the synagogue. It stays collapsed until you open it, and you need to be signed in to join.

Calendar Subscriptions

The calendar button in the toolbar gives you a feed URL for your own readings that you can subscribe to from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or any other calendar app. See Calendar Subscriptions for the steps.

Private Synagogues

A synagogue can keep its readings private. Community Mode then shows only a note saying so; the community calendar, the invitation list and the chat are not offered.