Provide more course-level controls to govern student behavior

Status: Identified Submitted by Instructure on ‎01-30-2023 07:11 PM

Theme Overview

Instructors want to exercise more control over student permissions to help facilitate positive course collaboration and prevent unwanted content from being viewed.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors have the option to moderate discussions, preventing students from seeing inappropriate content
  • Close existing loopholes for attaching documents to discussions, even when prohibited in Course Settings
  • Add additional controls over student ability to Conferences and Collaborations in Course Settings

Referenced Ideas (10)

[Roles] Hide for student-based course roles the names for who last modified files or pages Submitted by: d_j_corbin
[Assignments] On/Off switch for RCE in Assignments Submitted by: jessica_gutierr
[Student Grades] Hold Grade From Student Submitted by: dgilogley
[Course Settings] Course Settings for File Uploads in Discussions Contradict Rich Text Editor Behavior Submitted by: mcordes1
[Inbox] Allow students to block messages from other students Submitted by: A00364575
[Discussions] Granular section permission for posting discussions Submitted by: dsweeney2
[Course Settings] Manage student creation of Conferences and Collaborations from course settings Submitted by: julia_m_hopkins
[Discussions] Interact with students in their section only within ONE discussion Submitted by: Srta_H
[Enrollments] Self-Enrollment by Secret URL into Specific Section Submitted by: jrober26
[Discussions] Allow instructor to block/moderate student from discussion board Submitted by: jolaine

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