Half/Partial Discussion Post Submissions

[HelenaVu]

I literally clicked the "Reply" button just as my Chromebook lost internet connecting. Twenty-one minutes of rebooting and logging back in later (my school's Chromebook is slow af), I see that my response to the discussion post has been submitted, with half of the post being the actual "post" and the last half being submitted as a response to my own post when I logged back in. Is this possible?

[james_whalley]

@HelenaVu I'm guessing that it must be possible if it happened. Can you edit your original post, copy the "reply" into it, and then delete the reply?

[HelenaVu]

@james_whalley No, my professor has made it so that replies are uneditable after posting. Are you familiar with anyone else who’s experienced this?

[james_whalley]

I am not aware of this happening to anyone at our institution. Maybe your professor would be willing to fix this in the discussion so that everything flows appropriately.

[JolynnKottke]

When they turn off the edit option, it is so frustrating! And often not intentional, they just don't understand how, and if your professor did it intentionally, I wonder why?

[james_whalley · Accepted solution]

I think instructors sometimes turn it off because they do not want editing going on once responses have been made to a post, as the context can then be lost. It would be great if they had a feature that would allow you to edit until a direct reply has been added.