3.1.4 Modifying posts (your own and participants)

To keep a discussion clear and concise or just to change some mistakes it is necessary to modify posts, your own or participants. There is one option for participants and several options available for teachers, course creators and administrators to achieve this goal. Below you can find out how to edit posts. 

EDIT: By default everybody, who is allowed to post on the forum, can edit posts within 30 minutes. This amount of time is available for students and teachers to modify the content e.g. text format or changing attachments. After that time post will be sent by e-mail to those who are subscribed to the forum and participants are not able to make any changes. Teachers still have rights to change their own and participants posts if it’s necessary e.g. mistakes or inappropriate parts of posts that can offend somebody. Default time may be changed by an administrator in Administration > Site administration > Security > Site policies.

SPLIT: Users with the Role Administrator, Course Creator or Teachers can split a discussion. This option is useful when discussion has strayed away from the original topic. Then it’s possible to cut selected post with all nested posts below. All those posts will appear in the same forum but as a new topic. Note that it is not possible to cut only few posts from the middle of the topic. Be careful because when you split one topic you can move also some replies that are connected with original topic. Note that splitting can also change meaning of the posts that were moved to new topic. That is why before splitting posts you need to think very carefully if you actions can change posts meanings or not.

MOVE THIS DISCUSSION TO:  This option you can use to move one discussion from one forum to another forum. It is useful when in one course you have few forums that are created for different purposes and some topic does not belong to proper forum.

DELETE: This option is useful when some posts are inappropriate, offensive or they contain some information that should not be revealed. Instead of deleting posts you can split selected post and move it to hidden forum e.g. “Offensive posts that need to be discussed”.