Topic Moderation will default all student videos and comments to be hidden from other students and only visible to the educator in their Educator Dashboard. Topic Moderation is a great feature for educators who manually want to view and approve videos for student view, private office hours, or assessments.
- Enabling Topic Moderation
- Video Response Moderation view for students
- Hide or Activate Individual Response videos
- How to moderate text comments
Enabling Topic Moderation
- Access your educator account at admin.flipgrid.com
- Within Discussions, create a new Topic or go to Actions and Edit Topic
- Go to the Essentials section and turn on Topic Moderation to default video responses and comments to be hidden
- Select Create or Update Topic to save your changes
Note: Any videos and comments that were submitted prior to enabling Topic Moderation will remain visible to students until the educator hides them. All new videos and comments will automatically be hidden.
Video Response Moderation view for students
Once Video Moderation is enabled, learners have a few ways to confirm their videos have been successfully submitted.
- Learners will see the Moderated text underneath the Record a Response icon
- Learners will receive a confirmation on the last step of the recording process
- Learners will return to the Topic to see a moderation message
Hide or Activate Individual Videos
- Within Discussion, select the Topic
- Scroll to the video Responses table
- Next to the video Response, change the status to Hidden or Active
Tip: Educators can activate or hide multiple video Responses at a time using the batch Actions menu to the left of the Response table.
Educators can also quickly view and activate/hide all the moderated, or hidden, video Responses and Comments in Recent Activity.