Discussions - moderate

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Discussions - moderate

What it Does

Announcements

Allows user to view the New Announcement button in the Home page.

Allows user to add announcements in the Announcements page.

Blueprint Courses

Allows user to edit Blueprint lock settings on the Discussions index page in a Blueprint master course.

Discussions

Allows user to add discussions in the Discussions page.

Allows user to close for comments, move, pin/unpin, edit, and delete discussion topics in the Discussions page.

Allows user to edit discussion topics.

Allows user to view all replies within a discussion topic.

Additional Considerations

Announcements

To view announcements, Announcements - view must also be enabled.

Blueprint Courses

To edit lock settings on the Discussions index page, Courses - manage and Discussions - view must also be enabled.

If the additional permissions are enabled, but this permission is not enabled, lock settings can be edited on individual discussions.

Discussions

Both Discussions - create and Discussions - moderate allow the user to create a discussion in the Discussions page. If this permission is enabled, Discussions - create is not required.

To view discussions in a course, Discussions - view must be enabled.

To reply to a discussion, Discussions - post must be enabled.

To edit a discussion, Discussions - moderate must also be enabled.

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This documentation is generated directly from the Canvas LMS source code, available on Github.