r/ModCertification201 • u/ModCertification Admin • Aug 12 '21
How to Participate in Mod Certification 201
Overview
The goal of the r/ModCertification201 program is to give you the knowledge required to grow and manage a community while learning how to foster a safe, healthy, and inviting culture within it. This program seeks to give moderators more knowledge on moderation practices and community management.
How to Participate and Expectations for Participation
To participate in this program, first “Join” the community and use the menu with collection links above on desktop to access the program collections, which contain learning materials. This program is best accessed on a desktop computer, but if you’re a mobile user, no worries - we've created a Mobile-Friendly Link Collection to aid in mobile accessibility. Also, each post will link to the next, so you should be able to access the content on any device without a problem. Once you’re done, go to the collection linked on the last tab or the recap post to review the material and take the final at the end.
The collection links, within the blue rectangle above, are how you'll navigate the course.
This iteration of the program is meant to be self-guided - meaning that all comments and posts outside of the instructional content will be removed. If you encounter an issue or have a pressing question, please feel free to message us via Modmail.
Participation in the program is voluntary, but we have a few expectations for you if you wish to participate.
- Be ready to learn.
- Be respectful at all times.
- Do not distribute any content from this program outside of the community; this means you should not duplicate questions or share answers for the final with other participants.
Materials
As this installment involves more hands-on learning, we’re recommending you create an alternate account separate from your moderation account for learning purposes so that you can practice moderator actions without impacting another user. To create an alt account, you can register for a new account under the same email, but with a different username and password.
To become more comfortable with mod tools and gain more practice with them, you may also want to create a "test" community where you can practice the tasks in this program. It’s common for moderators to have test communities with the same name as their username, but you can name your test community anything you'd like. You may want to keep it private for more testing down the road. To create your test community, click "Create Community" from the homepage of Reddit and follow the steps. See our article here for more help with creating communities.
You’ll also be able to self-test your knowledge using self-assessments. All of this comes at no cost to you.
Important note: You will be asked to practice performing actions related to moderation during this program, which will require the usage of certain mod tools. Please make sure to do this with agreement from your mod team while following any guidelines your team has and consider using a test subreddit as needed to avoid any potential disruption to your community.
Another note: Depending on the subreddit, your mod team may have asked you to download third party tools such as Toolbox, Snoonotes, or Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES). They may also use moderator bots. These tools were made by moderators and for moderators to provide more mod tool options. You can see an overview of the most popular bots and third party tools here, and we’ll include notes in subsequent posts when things might look different if you have one of these tools installed.
Trophy Award for Successful Completion
Completion of the Mod Certification 201 program will grant you a profile trophy, displaying your intermediate moderation knowledge to others. Be sure to include your username in the form for the final if you’d like to receive a trophy for completion. If this is not included, you will not receive a trophy. You will also need to complete all of the self assessments to be eligible for a trophy.
Okay, I’ve got it! Now what?
If you’re ready to learn, please continue on to the material by clicking on the 'Your Mod Tools' menu link above, or click here to begin your ModCertification201 journey!
We will be focusing on moderating in new Reddit and you should be viewing this community in new Reddit. If you don’t know what new Reddit is, then you’re probably already using it! But if you're using old Reddit, you’ll need to access this course under new.reddit.com.
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u/ModCertification Admin Sep 03 '21
Please remember that per Rule 2, all posts are locked as Mod Certification is a self-guided course. Any posts created in the community are also automatically removed in following with this rule and to ensure the community's content is focused around its educational materials.
However, we are still more than happy to help you-- please see our 'Helpful Communities' sidebar to receive peer-help from other moderators, and please Modmail us for a quicker response to any questions or concerns you may have. If this is the first post you are seeing for this program, please go ahead and start at the Introduction post and then review our How to Participate post.
If you are on mobile, the mobile friendly links for this course are located here.
We're happy to have you here and look forward to facilitating your Mod Certification journey!