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Hi Marcus,

I think it would be great if you put this into the tracker as a feature request.  It would make both my classroom and fully online teachers happy.  I will vote if you post the tracker item.

Rob

Ironically we have been discussing this issue as well.

We are using 2.2.6 moving to 2.3 shortly.

As it appears to work now, when students post to a forum, the post can be seen immediately by others in the course. During the editing period, the post can be updated by the author. It can also be deleted by the author provided no replies to it have been made.

We would like to see and option for all forum types that would delay a post from becoming available/seen in the forum by anyone but the author and teacher, until the editing time has elapsed.

Our main concern is with inapropriate behaviour. This would provide some element of protection from students posting improper comments.

I had planned to open a feature request for this but since this will be done by someone else, we will monitor the request and vote on it.

Thanks to Marcus for opening the conversation on this important point.

I would make two changes to this. 

1. I would add a global setting that says whether this is enabled or disabled at the site level for admins

2. I would add the time of delay to the right of the disable or as a new field. This way not only can the teacher say yes I want a delay but they can also specify how long that delay is. 

I think the delay time is key to allow users to edit the post if they make a mistake. For your use case you need no editing and instant posting. Others might allow 5 minutes of editing ( near instant) and others are ok with the 30 minute rule.