When you will see this
Publishing a video needs an advanced editor. If you are a basic editor — which is every teacher by default — the Publish button on a video is replaced by Submit for review.
This is not a smaller version of publishing. Your changes are already saved on the video; submitting asks someone who can publish to look at them and push them out.
How to submit
- Finish your edits and save them.
- Click Submit for review.
- Add a note — what you changed and why. It is optional, and it is the single most useful thing you can do for the person reviewing. "Fixed the timing on lines 12 to 18, they were a beat early" saves them ten minutes of comparing.
- Click Submit for review.
The button then reads Submitted for review — waiting on a reviewer, with the version number you submitted. You have not lost the ability to keep working: edit further and click Update submission to add another note. There is only ever one open submission per video, so you cannot accidentally file five.
What the reviewer sees
They see the video as it is now, compared against what is currently published — so they are reviewing the actual change, not your description of it. Your note is next to it.
Submissions go into a queue that everyone who can publish can see, and the queue is posted to the team's channel once a day, so nothing sits unnoticed indefinitely.
What happens next
One of two things, and you are emailed either way:
- Approved. The reviewer publishes your changes. The video is live at a new version number, and your submission closes.
- Sent back. The reviewer explains what needs doing. The video is untouched and still yours to edit — fix what they raised and submit again.
Sent back is not a rejection of your work. It usually means one specific thing is off, and the note says which.
Where to find your submissions
On your home page, the Your content card lists what you have in flight and what has come back. A submission that was sent back is listed first, because it is the one waiting on you.
Before you submit
A submission a reviewer can approve in a minute is one where the video already clears the bar. Two things to check:
- It is publishable at all — every line timed, a transcript, a language, a duration. What makes a video publishable lists the whole set, and the Publish area tells you which ones are unmet.
- It follows the guidelines — clearing the bar and being good are different things. The content guidelines are what the reviewer is judging against.