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Creating a collection
You can create Collections to organize your videos and make your channel easy to browse.
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Written by Drew Woods
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How to create a new collection

If you’re an Admin, here’s how you can create a collection by:

  1. Click on the Collections link in the left-hand navigation.

  2. Click the New collection button on the right side of the page.

  3. Enter your new collections name and description.

  4. To create a sub-collection, select a parent collection.

  5. Click Save.

New Collection

Collections can be anything you want but here are just a few suggestions:

  • Getting Started – This collection will be great for organizing welcome and onboarding videos for new hires. Help new team members get to know your company more.

  • All-hands – This collection can be used to organize all your company all-hands so that everyone on your team can watch the video at any time.

  • Sales – This collection is great for keeping all your sales demos and training materials in one place so that you can onboard new sales team member faster.

  • Engineering – Collections work for individual organizations in your company too. Engineers can keep their product demos and screen captures here to show off their work and get feedback.

Managing permissions for creating top-level collections

Optionally, you can choose to let all members of your channel create collections or restrict access to just specific members or groups in Rewatch. Here’s how Admins can manage permissions:

  1. Click Admin console in the bottom of the left-hand sidebar.

  2. Click Permissions in the left-hand navigation.

  3. Under Video & collections, choose who can create top-level collections.

Collection permission settings

Sending collection notifications to Slack

You can send notifications to your team when new videos are added to your collection. Learn more about connecting Rewatch to Slack.

Secret collections

By default, collections are visible to the entire team. Any collection can be made secret by setting Channel members to restricted using the dropdown in the People with access section on any collection’s edit page. Secret collections are only visible to channel owners and people that are added to the collection.

Collection editors

Any member of your channel can be made a Collection editor of a collection. This will allow them to control the collection’s settings, access, and visibility. Learn more.

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