Getting Started

A Skillboard is a community built around one topic - Beatbox, Cooking, Drums, whatever you're trying to get better at. Each one bundles the same set of tools: a Progress Tracker to manage what you're learning, a SkillForum for discussion, and a set of Progress Cards the community has built up together.

Finding a board

The homepage feed surfaces trending and popular Skillboards, along with posts from boards you're already active on. If you know what you're looking for, the search bar in the header works across boards, forum posts, and progress cards site-wide.

Joining a board

Public boards are open - hit Join on the board page and you're in as a Member. Private boards only admit people on their invite list. Once you've joined, you'll see a personal dashboard for that board, and you can start moving cards through its Progress Tracker.

You don't have to join a board to look around first - forums and progress cards on public boards are visible to guests, but posting, voting, and tracking progress all require an account.

Where to go next

• The Progress Tracker - the kanban board where you track what you're learning
• Progress Cards - the individual pieces of content that make up a board
• SkillForums - discussion, questions, and polls
• Pathways - guided sequences if you don't know where to start
• Roles & Permissions - what Members, Cardinals, Moderators, and Admins can each do
• Creating & Managing a Skillboard - starting your own board
• XP & Levels - how progress translates into XP

Questions?

Each board has its own Help page (usually in its sidebar or footer) with rules and guidelines specific to that community. For anything platform-wide, see Contact.