FAQ
What kind of news Doceos contains
News Doceos is an international education news site which through the participation of experts and concerned people about this issue generates a real relevant news ranking about education. News Doceos ables users and visitors to actively participate in the International Education Comunity.
Is necessary to be registered to participate in News Doceos
Not necessarily. As unregistered user you are able to evaluate news. But to coment and to share Educational news with other users, it is necessary to be a registered member in order to guarantee the quality of Doceos contents.
How Can I become a publisher of Doceos
- You should get into the registration area and apply to become a publisher.
- To get an invitation from a Doceos’ member, which makes possible the automatic validation of your registry.How can I add news?
To add news, you have to be a publisher of Doceos
How can I comment news?
In order to introduce comments to articles, you must be a registered user (publisher), and click the “add comentary” link.
What does “value” mean?
“Value” reflects the opinion of the visitors and the importance that each article has for the Comunity and Society.
The positive or negative evaluations increase the value of news and their general interest.
If news are valued positively by a great number of users represents the positive interest about it, otherwise News valued negatively by the users represents disagreement.
The evaluations made by an anonymous users it do not carry the same weight that evaluations made by expert users.
What does the interest bar mean?
The interest bar reflects the number of interests generated towards each article.
What does “activity” indicate?
The value of activity reflects the amount of evaluations that an article has received.
How many user profiles exist?
There are 6 levels:
- Rector/Principal (only available for the system administrator)
- Doctor
- Master
- Magister
- Expert
- Publisher
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Which are the differences between profile users?
Each level has different privileges, about evaluation weight, personal account, number of invitations, access to validation news, and so on.
11. I’m a publisher, how can I reach a superior level?
News Doceos implements an equitable system that allows to evaluate the quality and activity of each user. This guarantees a numerical value to its activity in order to reach higher levels
The elements that influence in order to reach a higher level are:
- The amount of news incorporated
- The activity level that the user generates.
- The amount of positive or negative evaluations received to its insertions.
- The amount of visits that receive its articles
- The amount of articles penalized by other users, as well as the amount of articles classified as non suitable news.
- The amount of comments done to diferent news.
- The amount of comments received by their news
News Doceos awards the quality of publishers to guarantee the relevancy of its contents.
What “unsuitable news” is it for?
To mark as unsuitable an article penalizes it, because its considered as Commercial Spam or its content it’s not appropriated. When an article receives a certain number of penalties it is discarded automatically
How are selected news published?
News are published cronologicaly. Doceos classify as “upcoming news”, all the articles published by low or middle level publishers. Those are always validated by publisher of a superior rank.
The publishers of superior level have the privilege to publish automatically .
Why should I participate in News Doceos?
News Doceos is an useful tool for those people interested on the Education Sector. We really believe that this sector has serious lack of information, and we also believe that education it is one of a mainstay of our Society.
Why did I begin my activity as a publisher from a superior level?
The reason why is because another user has recommended you and invited you directly.
From the Doctor level you have 50 Master publisher invitations available
From the Master level you have 25 Magister publisher invitations available
From the Magister level you have 10 Expert publisher publisher invitations available.