Closing Discussions

Closing Discussions#

Tags: educator how-to

Note

You can only close discussions when you work in a web browser. You cannot close discussions when you work in an edX mobile app.

To define when discussions are closed to new contributions and when they reopen, follow these steps.

1. Navigate to edx discussion configuration page (see Configuring Open edX Discussions).

  1. Scroll down to Discussion Blackout Dates field.

  2. Create a new blackout date range by clicking on Add blackout date range.

Option for configuring discussion blackout dates.

  1. Add start and end dates and times in the format specified.

Note

The dates and times that you enter are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), not in your local time zone. You might want to verify that you have specified the times that you intend by using a time zone converter.

Note

To close the course discussions permanently, specify an end date and time far in the future.

  1. You can add more than one blackout date ranges using step 3 and 4 above.

  2. Select Save Changes.

See also

About Course Discussions (concept)

Running Course Discussions (concept)

Configuring Open edX Discussions (how-to)