Hide discussion Board Responses Until date

[baldwinsh]

Is there a way to hide discussion board responses until a certain date? One of the courses at my institution has a challenge. Each student is to make a post to the discussion board of their presentation. They are then required to watch the videos of the other presentations posted to the discussion board and provide feedback on what went well and what could be improved. The instructors are noticing that the students are all make comments that say the same thing and are phrased exactly the same. The instructors want the students to see the feedback that was given by other classmates to other classmates, so a peer review won't exactly work. What they would like to have happen is to have the feedback hidden until after a certain date when students can go back in and see everyones' feedback. Is there a way to hide responses until after a certain date? Can you think of a better method to do this activity?

[Gabriel33]

I don't know of a way to restrict the viewing of responses by date, but one option that may help is to select the "Participants must respond to the topic before viewing other replies" option in the discussion settings.

As students are making their own discussion posts, then either they'd need to select that when making the post, or the instructor needs to manually edit the post settings.

Do note that if students are allowed to edit their replies (which is a course setting), then they might post something just to view others' replies and then edit it.

[baldwinsh]

In this case, no. This course requires everyone to post, then watch the presentations attached to each post, and then reply to each post. The problem is that most students don't actually watch each of the presentations; they look to see what others said and then say the same thing. There are probably much better ways to do this asynchronous course, but that is not on the table of "could do's" and is not the issue.