News Permission and Moderation

Implications of the News Audience and News Moderation Options

Using the audience and the moderation toggles together can create a number of different options for news in your school. The table below outlines the implications of combining the toggles in different ways.

MyTyndale is currently set to Global Moderation enabled with All staff allowed to post to global audience.

Key Terms

Global Audience: Campus, House, Year Level, Role, Individuals.

Homepages: Class pages, Group pages, any other page in your instance with a News component.

Service Permissions for News

Service permissions can be given to individual users, which give them the ability to interact with News differently to other staff in the same role. They are needed for two types of users in the system, news writers and news moderators.

News “Write” Permission

Granting this level of permission allows a user to write news for any audience in the instance. This includes groups, classes, folders, or pages where their group or role permissions do not normally allow them to write to the page. It also includes global audiencing by campus, role, house, year level, or to individuals, even if the toggle to allow staff to post to global audiences is off.

News “Moderate” Permission

Granting this level of permission gives a user the same abilities as above, with the additional ability to moderate news if Global Moderation is enabled. Individuals with News Moderator permissions will publish all of their items without moderation.