Admin guide and toolkit
Four short guides and a toolkit of ready messages for the person who keeps the group running.
- How to be a good group adminTen habits of admins whose groups stay useful, friendly and alive, whether it is a family, society, class or office group.
- How to stop a fight in a group chatA calm, step-by-step way for admins to stop an argument in a WhatsApp group without taking sides or losing members.
- How to stop fake forwards in your groupSimple checks for members and firm, polite steps for admins to keep rumours, fake health tips and scam messages out of a group.
- How to set up a new WhatsApp group properlyA ten-minute checklist for starting a group: name, description, rules, permissions, admins and the first message.
- Welcome messages for new group membersReady messages to welcome a new member. A good welcome tells the person what the group is for and makes it easy to say hello.
- Admin announcement messagesReady messages for the things every admin has to say sooner or later: a reminder of the rules, a meeting, a poll, a gentle warning. Change the words in brackets.
- Group descriptions to copyShort texts for the "group description" box. A clear description answers the question every new member has: what is this group for?
- Poll ideas for WhatsApp groupsPolls are the easiest way to wake up a group, because voting takes one tap. Each idea below has a question and its options, ready to type into a WhatsApp poll.
- Group rules to copyReady sets of rules for every kind of group, in English and Hindi.