Reviewing presentations

You can take recorded presentations located on the Mediasite through an iterative content approval workflow before you make them available to an audience. In Mediasite this is called the Review-Edit-Approve (REA) workflow.

REA roles and review states

REA roles

In the REA workflow, users have one of two roles: Approver or Editor. Approvers can comment on, approve, and reject presentation updates. Approvers cannot edit the content. Editors can record or upload content to presentations created in the folder or the individual presentation, but the content does not become generally viewable until an Approver reviews it and marks it approved. If additional changes are made, the presentation will have to be approved again.

Review states

There are three states in the review workflow: Review Required, Changes Required, and Approved.

Review required: The following changes will put a presentation in the “Review Required” state:

•      Publishing from the Recorder

•      Editing the video

•      Uploading video manually

•      Adding additional media types

•      Enabling podcast

•      Enabling video podcast (if available)

•      Adding captioning

 

Changes Required: Denying the changes made to a presentation will change its state from the “Review Required” state to the “Changes Required state.

Approved: Approving or the changes made to a presentation will change its state from the “Review Required” state to the “Approved” state.

Review presentations page

Presentations currently in the review process (Review Required or Changes Required state) are listed on the Publishing > Review Presentations page. When a presentation has changes or approval pending, the version containing the changes is offline. Offline presentations do not appear in search results or catalogs for users with only View permissions.

    The content approval feature is typically enabled by the Mediasite administrator. The four-step process for enabling this feature is described in the Mediasite Configuration Guide.

 

Comment on presentation updates

You can comment on a presentation when it is in a review state (Changes Required or Review Required).

To add a new comment:

1.  Navigate to the presentation and select it to view its summary page.

2.  Click Review Comments. The number of comments will be indicated on the tab.  

3.  In the Post a comment field, enter your comment and click Add.

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Presentation summary page, comment on presentation

    When a presentation is in a review state, there will be system comments automatically posted indicating what actions put the presentation in its current state.

 

Approve or deny updates made to a presentation

To approve or deny a presentation’s updates:

1.  Navigate to the presentation and select it to view its summary page.

2.  Click Review Comments. The number of comments will be indicated on the tab. 

3.  Review the comment history and changes. For example, if changes were made using the Mediasite Editor, launch the presentation in the Player to view the edited presentation.

4.  Once your review is completed, click Approve to accept the updates. Click Deny to decline the updates. The state of the presentation updates accordingly.

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Presentation summary page, approve/deny updates