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Overview
Hosted Channels are a way to target certain labeling groups to work on jobs. This article describes how to create new channels via various methods on the Dedicated platform.
How to Create a New Hosted Channel
To create a new channel, please follow the steps outlined below.
- To create a new channel, click the “Hosted Channel” icon on the navigation bar on the left-hand side.
- Then, click on the “New Hosted Channel” button.
Figure 1: How to create a new Hosted Channel
- A text box will appear to provide a descriptive name for the channel. Once a name is entered, click “Create”.
Figure 2: Naming a new Hosted Channel
How to Add Contributors (Labelers) to a Channel
Before contributors can sign up for an account and work in jobs, they are first required to be created in Dedicated by adding them to a Hosted Channel.
Contributors can be created by either two ways: via CSV file bulk upload and individually.
CSV File Bulk Upload
Contributors can be uploaded via a CSV file with the following columns:
- channel_id: Contains the ID for the channel to which the contributors are to be added.
- To find the channel ID, go to Account and click on the Hosted Channel Details tab. The channel ID will be the numeric characters that precede the channel name.
Figure 3: How to find the Channel ID
- last_name: The contributor’s last name
- first_initial: The initial of the contributor’s first name
- unit: The “team” the contributor is a part of that corresponds to the “Unit Leaderboard” on the Leaderboard tab
- parent: Metadata column.
- group: Metadata column.
- service: Metadata column.
Figure 4: An example of a contributor CSV
Important note: All columns must be populated upon upload.
Individually Registering a Contributor
- To register individual contributors, visit the “Hosted Channels Details” tab.
- From there, you can register a contributor by specifying their email address and inviting that contributor to the selected channel as shown in the figure below.
- Please note, this method of inviting individual contributors to a channel is not recommended as the user will be created without metadata.
Figure 5: Inviting an Individual Contributor to a Channel