Hi Doug,
Please try updating the forum and select one of the "no discussion" options available for "Can a participant post to this forum?"
Please try updating the forum and select one of the "no discussion" options available for "Can a participant post to this forum?"
Theres the issue. I can do this for a forum in a course. I cant find the "update forum" option for the SITE news (Course 0)
You may also like to vote for the bug that requests that discussion be disabled on site news by default.
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-4449
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-4449