How to Create a Community in a Virtual Environment

How do you create a community in a virtual environment? There are a couple of different elements that we feel are really important for building a strong community. We have this idea of, we doa intercall with every single person who joins one of our courses. Used to be on an individual basis. Now they're in small groups. The second key is the sort of harnessing that initial energy you create. And you want to do that by having ways to increase the surface area of sure between the different students.