Bulk Delete Discussions

[rhunt]

There needs to be a way to bulk delete Discussions. In Announcements you can simply check the box next to all of the announcements and then hit delete. Need to be able to do the same in Discussions. There was another post requesting this, but it was from November 14th 2019 and it's still not resolved so adding a fresh, recent request.

[Stef_retired]

@rhunt Would you please provide the link to the request from November 2019? 

[rhunt]

I just came up when I typed in my title and clicked the Check Title button. I'll go back and do that again...

Got it.

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Bulk-delete-discussion-threads/idi-p/299157

[Stef_retired]

Thanks, @rhunt . That one came up in my search, but I interpret it as a request to delete multiple threads (posts) within a single discussion—i.e., it's a different request. We'll move yours forward for further discussion.

[PallaviJalakam]

Deleting multiple unwanted discussions (wrongly copied from one course to another or created by mistake) at a time will save a lot of time. Deleting one Discussion at a time is time-consuming and tedious.

Perhaps, having a check box in the UI (similar to the Announcements tool) to select multiple Discussions can make bulk deletion easy and in fewer clicks.

[choppingm]

Really, this isn't fixed yet? How hard would it be to implement this: select announcements by some criterion / criteria (e.g., date published, subject contains "exam") and delete only the matching ones? 

[ProductPanda]

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