Hello all
I was wondering if any of you are aware of a way to anonymise discussion board posts/comments after they have been posted? A lecturer has asked if it would be possible to reuse a discussion board in the next academic year, so that the new students are able to see the posts and comments, but are not able to see the names of any of the previous year's students.
Many thanks
Rebecca
LOL, you mean the option to did-enroll? That was a terrible typo. I check my typing but I always see what I meant, not what's there.
Anyway, if you go to users in the control panel section of your course, you click users and not groups. See the image below.
You should see a list of users with their course role, and you may or may not see the ability to remove enrollments and make enrollments. See the image below. If you can see those options, you have the privileges to use them.
We permit instructors to manually enroll and dis-enroll users even tho we have SIS integration, because we expect test users to be enrolled manually to "certify" the validity of the content before the integration is tested. It may be that your course role or system role does not enable the privilege to enroll and disenroll, and you will not see these options. If that is the case you will have to contact your system admin or some other user who has the ability to remove users from a course.
Removing the original participants in the discussion board from the course will convert all posts to anonymous. If the users need to be re-enrolled back into the course, the posts will remain anonymous. There may be a popup window attempting to assign a user to the anonymous posts, you can do with that what you want, but I warn you ALL posts will be assigned the same user if you do that.