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=Moderating First Class Conferences= toc

For more details see the Surrey FC Moderation handbook.

Moderation Policies
The Surrey School District expects that student FirstClass accounts are moderated regularly. This does not mean that a teacher needs to review every students resume, email and website. Moderation can be done by peers as long as all discipline is done by staff.

Creating Conferences
You are only able to create conferences once you have been trained as a conference moderator. Included in conference moderation is the ability to create calendars. Once trained and your account has conference creation permissions, you can create conferences for other teachers and give them full permissions on those conferences.

Setting up a Homework Drop Box conference
Essentially, we need to create a conference that students can submit to but not open any items. Open the Conference Open the Permissions dialogue (ctrl or apple ;) Select the user group Select Contributor as the Access type Then unclick the magnifying glass and unclick download files and attachments

(If you want students to not even be able to see who else has submitted, then you can unclick the open conference option; however, they will have to email to the conference by name only)

Setting up student moderators
Students can be given permission - through the Permissions dialogue to be able to edit / delete other students work. This could be for student monitoring content, or correcting spelling / dates in posts etc.

Sending email from a conference
If you are working with many students, you likely do not want them all directly emailing you. If you send an email from a conference, when students reply, the email will go to the conference and not to your mailbox. (You could have one for each class that you teach;however, you then need to open more conferences to get all the new emails.)

Open the Conference Open the Permissions dialogue (ctrl or apple ;) Click on the Message button (second from the top left) A new email will open with the conference as the FROM field