Moderation versus tagging

Moderation and tagging are powerful tools for managing, organising, and progressing entries throughout your program.

Moderation

Moderation is used to screen entries before they proceed to judging. It allows you to review submissions for completeness, quality, or eligibility and decide whether they should move forward.

From the Manage workspace, you can moderate entries directly in the Entries view by marking them as "Approved" or "Rejected". Approved entries can progress to judging, while rejected entries are stopped from moving forward.

To learn more, see our dedicated guide: Moderation.

Tagging

Tagging can be used at any stage of your program and supports a wide range of workflows.

Common use cases include:

• Grouping entries for judging (for example: finalists, winners, manager’s choice)
• Progressing entries between judging stages
• Communicating with entrants (for example: payment required, missing attachment, follow-up needed)
• Internal record keeping (for example: referral source, free entry, vendor, previous participant)

An entry can have any number of tags applied at the same time.

To learn more, see our guide: What are tags?

Good to know

• Moderation and tagging are available to program managers by default.
• Judges can also tag entries if their role permissions have been updated; see: How can I allow judges to see tags?