As an instructor, you can publish or unpublish a discussion that has enabled Discussions Redesign. Unpublished content is invisible to students and excluded from grade calculations.
If the steps in this lesson do not match what is displayed in your course, learn how to publish and unpublish discussions in the classic Discussions interface.
Note: If you use Modules in your course and add a discussion to a Module, please be aware that the state of the Module overrides the state of all module items. You may want to consider leaving discussions unpublished until you are ready to publish the entire Module. For more information, learn more about publishing modules.