Deletion of threads

Deletion of threads

Neil Langevin
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Is there a method (or future plans) for a teacher to delete a thread ? I know you can delete individual entries in Moodle, but this can sometimes be tedious if the thread contains many many posts.

Neil Langevin

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Re: Deletion of threads

Neil Langevin

Any ideas, comments???

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Re: Deletion of threads

Martin Dougiamas
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I think it would make sense to change things so that instead of a warning about not being able to delete a post with replies, that teachers get a warning like "you are about to delete a post with replies attached to it" - if they say yes then ALL are deleted.
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Re: Deletion of threads

Przemyslaw Stencel
I guess it's obvious, but just in case:

If a user is not a teacher, he will still get the warning about not being able to delete a post with replies.
Am I correct?
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Re: Deletion of threads

C. Kirill Sokolov
Is this a change that's easy to make, code-wise? I can not find a preference for this now, but would be a great feature to make available to our teachers.
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Edward Hewlett
Has the proposed teacher-only ability to delete posts with replies been added yet? This is a feature that is really needed, as a few of the Grade 8 students using our school's Moodle occasionally get carried away with threads that quickly accumulate large quantities of inappropriate content. Deleting such a thread one post at a time quickly becomes rather tedious (not to mention time-consuming).
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N Hansen
No, it hasn't. But I submitted it as bug 1938 a couple months ago. You can add your vote for it there.
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Re: Deletion of threads

Ali Press
I would also really like to see this feature implemented, so went to vote but when i clicked it told me I had already voted...  but my name isn't on the list of people who have voted.
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Re: Deletion of threads

Steve Menear

Reading through some previous discussion threads, there appears to be a simple way to delete an entire thread.

1) Split the offending branch so that it becomes its own thread.

2) Create a temporary forum called 'Garbage collection'.

3) Move the unwanted thread from its current forum to 'Garbage collection'.

4) Delete the 'Garbage collection' forum.

I tried this out, and it seems to work just fine.

Steve

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Re: Deletion of threads

Steve Hyndman

Good tip Steve. I ran into this exact problem in class tonight when I was using a forum for student practice. Once the practice was over, I simply wanted to delete the thread, but found I couldn't without first deleting every reply. I ended up deleting the forum. Spliting a thread into a garbage forum is a good workaround.

I can imagine there would be a time when a teacher may want to keep a discussion thread, but simply delete the contents of a inappropraite post in the thread. It would be nice if the teacher could simply open a post and delete the offending text from a given post.

Steve

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Re: Deletion of threads

Dave Richford

This is a much needed piece of functionality. As mentioned by a previous poster students can easily digress into unsuitable discussions!

When are we likely to see this being added?

Cheers,
Dave

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Re: Deletion of threads

Martin Dougiamas
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This is done in CVS for Moodle 1.5.  Teachers can now delete whole branches at once - they are first given a warning and a preview of all the posts they are about to delete.