At the top of the Activity Feed, you’ll see a series of drop-down menus, or filters.  You can use these menus to limit which information you see in your Activity Feed. This can be useful, because you’ll find that the feed fills up quickly, and the filters let you view items only from a particular time period, Community, or student. There are five filters you can use to sort your Activity Feed: 

Date: Use this filter to see items from a specific timeframe. The default is always the current day.

Tip: If you are moderating as students are working during class, set this filter to Today and the name of that Community to moderate on the fly as your students work!

Activity: Use this filter to sort by what type of activity notices you’re looking for. The available choices are:  

• All Activity: The default setting for the filter shows every item in the Activity Feed, with the most recent at the top.
  
• Unread Only: Shows all items that have not been previously reviewed or marked as read.
  
• Read Only: Shows all items that have been reviewed or marked as read.
  
• Approved Only: Shows all items that are currently approved and live.
  
• Disapproved Only: Shows all items that are currently disapproved and not live.
  
• Unread & Disapproved: Shows all items currently disapproved that have not been reviewed or marked as read.
  
• Unread & Approved: Shows all items currently approved that have not been reviewed or read. 
  

Tip:  Unread & Approved occurs frequently when students are “trusted” (have their post automatically approved) because their posts are approved without being reviewed.

1. Tip: Items will be marked as Read if any co-teacher of the Community, lead teacher, or     admin reads an item.
   

Tip:  Certain items disappear from the Activity Feed after being reviewed or moderated, including new student sign-up requests, Community join requests, and disapproved posts, which are sent back to the student’s draft center. For more information on changing student access to MySciLife or a particular Community, see the Manage Students (Teacher Tools) article. 

Community: Choose a Community from this drop-down menu to view all of the Activity Feed items for that Community only (i.e. the students in that one class, or all of your student activity in the Main Stream). The default is All My Communities. 

Content Type: This filter allows you to choose a specific type of content to see from the following list:

• All Types: Shows everything over which you have moderating power.
  
• Posts: Shows all posts in your Communities.
  
• Identity: Shows all student identity creation or change requests.
  
• Post Comments: Shows all student comments on posts. 
  
• Announcement Comments: Shows all student comments on announcements.
  
• Member Requests: Shows new requests to join your Communities. These will disappear once you approve or disapprove them. 
  
• COPPA Requests: Shows requests to verify colleagues or verify parental consent for students under 13 to use MySciLife. These will disappear once they have been properly dealt with.
  

Users: This filter allows you to choose to view individual students, all students, or all teachers in your Communities. 

Once you’ve set a series of filters on the Activity Feed, you can press Go to apply your changes. The initial results will be displayed after a moment. If the information you’re looking for isn’t in the initial results, scroll to the bottom of the results to automatically load more.