Document history - Amazon Mechanical Turk

Document history

This document history describes the important changes to the documentation.

  • Latest documentation update: June 3, 2014

Change Description Date Changed
Updated Screen Shots The New Batch button changed to Publish Batch. Screen shots were updated in the topic Publish a batch of HITs. June 3, 2014
Minor Updates Various improvements and corrections. March 26, 2014
New Topic: Approving Previously Rejected Assignments Added a new topic about approving previously rejected assignments that describes how to reverse a rejection using the Requester User Interface. For more information, see Approve previously rejected assignments. January 28, 2013
New Advanced Properties Option Updated Edit Properties screen shots for the new Advanced properties option. For more information, see Create a project. November 15, 2012
New Topic: How to Create a Sentiment Project Added a new topic describing how to create a Sentiment project and updated various screen shots. October 12, 2012
New Topic: How to Create a Categorization Project Added a new topic describing how to create a Categorization project and added new screen shots for the new Create tab. August 8, 2012
More information on Master Workers More information on Mechanical Turk Master Workers was added to various topics. Master Workers are an elite group of Workers who have demonstrated superior performance working on a number of HIT categories before they are granted Masters Qualification. July 3, 2012
New Mechanical Turk HITLayout New for this release is the ability to create a HITLayout in the Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester UI that can be used with the Mechanical Turk API. A HITLayout is a reusable template used to provide Human Intelligence Task (HIT) question data for CreateHIT. For more information, see HITLayout. March 29, 2012
Mechanical Turk Review Policies Amazon Mechanical Turk has added Review Policies that you can use to evaluate Worker submissions against a defined set of criteria. For more information, see Review Policies. December 1, 2011
Manage Batches The Manage tab now has a sub tab called Manage Batches. On that sub tab, you can approve and reject work, import and export results, view batch details, and delete a batch. For more information, see Creating Your Batch of HITs. October 4, 2010
Manage Workers The Manage tab now has a sub tab called Manage Workers. On that sub tab, you can block Workers, give them bonuses, and assign them a qualification type and score. For more information, see Managing Workers. October 4, 2010
Manage Qualification Types The Manage tab now has a sub tab called Manage Qualification Types. On that sub tab, you can view the details of qualification types and create new ones. For more information, see Managing Qualification Types October 4, 2010
Block or Bonus Workers Now you can block a worker or award a bonus while reviewing their results. For more information, see Managing Your HITs. February 25, 2010
Reject and Republish Now you can reject work and republish an assignment while you're reviewing a worker's results. For more information, see Managing Your HITs. February 25, 2010