Manage course-level Discussions Settings
Updated 17 Aug 2021
Course-level Discussions Settings allow you to manage how students interact with discussion topics and responses in your course, in both prebuilt Discussions or in new threaded discussion items and topics you create yourself. The settings give you the ability to hide or show discussion topics to students, allow students to edit their responses, and show a total and unread response count in the Topics list. The Post first option allows you to hide other responses for a topic until a student first responds to that topic.
Changes to Discussions Settings apply to all threaded discussion items and topics in your course, unless otherwise noted for the option.
Modify course-level Discussions Settings
- Open the discussion menu item.
- Select Manage View above the discussion page then select Manage.
- Select Discussions Settings.
- Choose any of the following options:
- Allow student to edit their posted responses for all Threaded Discussions in this course — Allows students to edit their own responses after they have posted them. The edited response appears in the topic with the date and time modified, as well as the original post date.
- Students can edit the subject line when responding to previous response — Enables students to change the Subject when writing a response in any topic.
- Display Threaded Discussion responses in “Preview” mode — Shows the first line of each response under its Subject. You and your students can see at a glance what is discussed in a topic’s responses without having to expand them.
- Hide topics from students for all Threaded Discussions — This setting applies to new topics only and can be overridden when adding or editing a topic.
- Post first – Hide responses for a topic until a response is posted by a student for all Threaded Discussions — This setting applies to new topics only and can be overridden when adding or editing a topic. If you select this option, students see this message after selecting a topic: "Responses for this topic are hidden from you until you make a response."
- Display number of responses for a topic — Shows instructors and students the total number of responses and number of unread responses in the Topics list. This setting applies to all discussion topics in your course.
- Select Save Changes.
Notes:
- By default none of the Discussions Settings options are selected. However, course producers customize course designs. The default Discussions Settings might vary among courses.
- Copies of your course or another instructor’s course keep the same Discussions Settings and discussion topics as the original course, but all responses are deleted in the course copy.
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