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What are Moderated Groups, and how do I use them in Skype?

ByCorporate Guider Home, Skype

The Moderated Groups feature can be very helpful when you want more control over the members of a group, for example, during presentations in person or online, where you would like to control the members of the group more closely. By using the Moderated Groups feature, you can modify member roles, ban users from specific chats, and sometimes even completely ban them from all aspects of the site, such as chats and discussion forums.

How do I create a Moderated Group?

  1. Select New Chat from the Chat menu.
  2. Choose the New Moderated Chat or New Moderated Group option from the dropdown menu.
  3. When you have finished naming the group, click the Next arrow to move on to the next step.
  4. The first step in adding contacts to a group is to select the contacts that you would like to add to the group. Also, you can use the search bar on the top of the screen to find contacts that you know.
  5. As soon as you are done adding contacts, you will have the option to create a group by selecting Done. In your chat window, you will see that your new Moderated Group has been created.
      Note: The /golive chat command is only available to Admins in Moderated Groups, so only those users with the administrator role may initiate calls.

What can I do in a Moderated Group?

The default aspect of creating a group is to make yourself the Moderator/Admin, and the people you add to this group are the Members/Users, who are only allowed to join this group by invitation. You can use the available chat commands in Skype to accomplish many things, such as promoting Users to Admins (which gives them the ability to start calls), removing someone from the group, and many other actions, such as promoting Users to Admins.

  Note: If a chat command is only available to admins, then it will not be available to all members of a group. When it is restricted to admins, some commands will not work in a moderated group.
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Frequently Asked Questions

 

According to this definition, a User would be viewed as a member who participates in calls and posts messages as well as posts messages in the chat. Initially, all participants in a group chat become admins after they have joined, but if the chat is moderated, then all participants become admins, otherwise they are not admins. As a note, an unmoderated group is not able to set the roles of other members, only the creator can configure the roles. This means that from this point on you will be in communication with everyone else in the chat room in the form of a group call.
 
To open the profile of the group you just need to click the Manage group button beside the group name. Click on the group photo and then click on the edit button to make any changes to the group photo, such as adding a new photo or deleting an existing photo. Make changes to the name of your group: By selecting the text edit button next to the current name, you can make changes to the name of your group.
 
On the Skype panel, you will find the option you are looking for. If you wish to delete a group, you must first select it. Select the delete option from the right click menu when you right click. Once you have done that, you are done.
 
If you click on the name of the group at the top of the conversation, you can view a list of all the admins for that group. A group can be configured to have an additional administrator by simply repeating the process with the Skype name of the administrator who is a member of the group in order to add them to the group.
 
Having trouble finding Skype groups? Here’s how you can find them:
  1. You will need to open Skype in order to use it.
  2. Just above the “Conversations” tab, and just to the right of the drop-down menu beside it, you will find the search field in the left half of the screen.
  3. This field will automatically fill in any part of the group’s name that you enter in this box, so it can be as specific as you like.
  4. Below the search box, you can find a box that contains the remaining items that can be found.
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