Check Vocabulary Guide

The Check team is introducing this list of the terms used on Check to help you understand what they refer to.

• Item: The smallest unit of an investigation in Check. In other words, this is a media item or a claim being verified, including the status and the entire…

How to Create Team-wide Tasks

Team-wide tasks are those questions you want to have them added to each media item created on your team. They are pre-listed in the admin interface and will be showing whenever you create any new item

• First, make sure that you’re the owner of the team…

Add to Check from Slack

Links can now be added directly to Check as media items when shared on Slack making it easier for you and your team to add items in a timely manner.

Before you start, you need to take the following steps:

1. Make sure you and your team are…

Team Tasks

The team owner can create team-wide tasks from the team management page. These tasks will be added to all new items under the projects they…

Tags Product Guide

Tags can be used to organize media items on Check. To start adding tags to your media item, go to the item’s page and you will see the tags icon showing at the bottom next to the three dots menu.

Lock Status and Unlock Status

While journalists, editors and owners can all change the status of an item on Check, sometimes team owners…

Assigning Tasks and Media Items on Check

Assigning tasks and media items allows owners, editors and journalists to assign items…

Task Notes

Users are able to add notes to tasks as a conversation thread, discussing the question being asked in the task. Notes can still be added to a task even after it gets resolved, allowing relevant conversations to continue.