Moderating in the Activity Feed

Moderating in the Activity Feed



Moderating in the Activity Feed


You can interact with all of the items that appear in the activity feed in one of two ways: View and the Approve/Disapprove toggle for posts, comments, and identities requiring moderation. 


View: Click this button to view the full post in its location on MySciLife.


Approve: If a student’s post or comment is appropriate, click Approve and the post will appear in their Community, in the Main Stream, or both, depending on their share settings. 


Disapprove: If there is a problem with a post or comment, click Disapprove to send it back into the student’s Drafts. Disapproved comments do not go back into the Draft Center, but they do stay in the teacher’s Activity Feed. 



Tip:  Moderation is also possible from any Post page, but providing feedback by commenting on a post is not the best way to help students. 


Tip:  If you want to disapprove a post and provide feedback to the student that created it, flip the toggle to Disapprove (either in the Activity Feed or in the Post View) and add feedback to the disapproved post when prompted. This will send a message to your student indicating that their post has been disapproved and including your feedback. For more information, see the Feedback on Posts article.


Important: Feedback is only visible to the student and their teachers.

 

Tip: If you want a student to correct a comment and submit it again, copy it into a message with suggestions on how to fix it.






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