[ARCHIVED] Pale green publishing button

[vlangcatlin]

I have a discussion post for several different times with 8 students in each group.  I published it but it is showing up as a pale green not red. and it is not showing up for the students.  It states that it is an unpublished module on their side.

How do I fix this?

Thank you

Dr. Lang-Catlin

[distance_ed1]

Hi Dr. Lang-Catlin,

What's likely going on here is that your discussion exists in a module you haven't published yet. I see this happen all the time! What you'll need to do is visit your Modules page and track down which unpublished module/s the discussion has been added to. Then, choose whether you want to publish the module or remove the discussion from the module. If you remove the discussion from the module, nothing about the discussion will change or be deleted; students just won't be able to access it from that place on the Modules page.

Here're some guides to help!

How do I publish or unpublish a module as an instructor?

How do I remove module items?

If you're having trouble figuring out which module is being troublesome, feel free to send us a screenshot of your Modules page and let us know what the name of the discussion is so we can help you spot it!

All the best,
Danielle Casey

eLearning Program Coordinator

Lower Columbia College

[vlangcatlin]

Hello,

I have already tired that, I cannot track down that part of it. Other students have posted it from the first group. It is now the second group that is having problems and it will not publish. I have never had this issue in any other classes I have taught.

Thank you

Vicky Lang-Catlin, DNP, MSN/Ed, CNE, CLE, RN

Faculty Nursing

VLangCatlin@carrington.edu<mailto:VCatlin@carrington.edu>

5580 Kietzke Lane,

Reno, Nevada, 89511

Office 775-335-2920

[Ginger2]

I am having the same problem. I can't figure it out. My modules are all published.

[LauraEd]

I had the same problem and just figured it out. I had the discussion in a published module and I had it listed 3 times-one for Period 1, one for Period 2, and one for Period 3 kids. I also had put Requirements on the module as they moved through it. The first discussion was the normal green but it was the second two that were pale. I took off the Requirements and the pale green went back to normal.

[VeroniqueJANSSE]

The first discussion was the normal green but it was the second two that were pale. I took off the Requirements and the pale green went back to normal.

How did you do this Laura?

[AliciaSwackhame]

I also had the issue of a pale green published check in a module. I looked in the community and saw that it could be in an unpublished module or have pre-requisites. This was not the case with my pale checks. What the issue was is that they were assigned to only one person. If you mask as the student it was assigned to, you could see it. The students that it was not assigned to could not see the pale checks.

I hope that helps!

[PETERFESSIER]

I noticed that if you hover your cursor over the pale green button it says it cannot be unpublished if there are student submissions. I have another assignment that also has the pale green button and students have successfully submitted on that one. That leads me to believe that the pale green in my case just means it cannot be unpublished once students have submitted.