"Close" or "Lock" a forum

"Close" or "Lock" a forum

by Bill P. -
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I'm looking for some guidance in "locking" a forum discussion. In other words, I don't want any new postings in a particular forum.

When I'm looking at the "update" page for a particular forum, under the question "Can a student post to this forum?", one option is "no discussions, no replies." If I choose this for an active forum, would it simply lock down the forum, or would it delete the posts that are already there?

I'd rather ask than risk experimenting with student work. If noone has a solution, I'll either backup the database and try it out, or I'll just announce that the forum topic is closed.

My goal here is to have students working within particular timeframes for assigned forum activity.

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Re: "Close" or "Lock" a forum

by Martin Dougiamas -
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You won't lose any data changing that setting.
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Re: "Close" or "Lock" a forum

by Sean Tierney -
It would be nice to be able to set this date within the forum properties.

When I open a forum for discussion, with the plan to grade posts, i find those that post after the "closing" date have great difficulty with the concept that althought they could post, I cannot (will not) grade them.

At the moment I change the sttings as described - but it would be nice to be bale to "close the forum at the same time!!

Sean T
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Re: "Close" or "Lock" a forum

by Irmgard Willcockson -
One of the faculty members I am working with asked me to deal withthe problem of locking forums.  It would be nice to restrict posts to certain dates.

He is particularly worried about lots of posts the night before the exam, and he might not get to read all of them, and what if one of those is incorrect....

At the moment, I will advise him to close the forum at a particular time manually, and we'll announce that in the beginning.  It would be great if forums could work like assignments in the sense of having a date range available for posting.  Irmi
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Re: "Close" or "Lock" a forum

by Ben Davis -
reviving an old thread...

I am having the same old issue, but "no posts, no replies" is not a forum type, nor is there a checkbox to disable student posts. I tried overriding roles, so all students were guests, but they can still post. I do not control permissions.


How can you close a forum, no further posts, without hiding it?
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Re: "Close" or "Lock" a forum

by Tim Hunt -
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"overriding roles, so all students were guests"

You are on the right lines, but wrong.

What you should be doing is overriding permissions so that students no longer have permission to post new discussions or reply to existing discussions in that forum.

When you say 'so all students were guests' it sounds like you are assigning roles instead.

I think that by default teachers are not allowed to override permissions, so you many need to find an administrator.
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Re: "Close" or "Lock" a forum

by ben reynolds -
Hi Tim,

Just dotting an i and crossing a t.

It looks like "Start new discussions" and "Reply to posts" are the two permissions to change, unless you've got a news forum.


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Re: "Close" or "Lock" a forum

by Nicolás Casaballe -

What if you want to allow using some forum (posting) while locking another one?

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Re: "Close" or "Lock" a forum

by Greg Egan -

If you override permissions at the activity level (ie for a particular forum), it is only for that forum, so any other forum will remain open.

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Re: "Close" or "Lock" a forum

by Glenys Hanson -

Hi Nicolás,

If you use the ForumNG you can lock a forum just by clicking on a button.

You can find it on Google docs here:forumng.2.34.zip

Cheers,

Glenys

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