[ARCHIVED] (Pre-)moderation of the discussion board

[d_l_finkelshtei]

Hi,

I understand that it may be somehow against the idea of a discussion board, but is it possible to organise a pre-moderation of students' questions?

The (potential) reason is the following. I have a Canvas course in Maths. I may imagine the case when a student, asking a question at the discussion board, reveals (fully or partially) the solution to an exercise. It would be better (for me) to have all students posts/replies on the discussion board 'on hold' by default and I will make the 'eligible' questions visible for all just manually (I do not expect long discussions to be honest).

Kind regards,

Dmitri 

[ddaniels]

I'm not sure there is a function where you can manually enable discussion posts. However, you can enable the function that users must post before seeing others replies.

You can also turn off the ability to edit or delete their posts, so that once a student has posted, they are unable to change it based on the answers of their peers. If you go to settings, then select more options, you will see checkboxes for those options. Don't forget to "update course details" when you are done!

       

Hope that helps!

[kona · Accepted solution]

 @d_l_finkelshtei , greetings! Unfortunately there currently isn't a way to moderate discussions before they are submitted. There is a feature idea for this though - https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/8974-allow-instructor-to-blockmoderate-student-from-discussion...  - and my recommendation is to comment on it, vote for it, and follow it so you'll be notified of any new activity related to this idea. 

Kona

[scotchcollege15]

Solution here is a misnomer. This is a widely requested feature.