[LON-CAPA-users] deleting old discussion posts

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,

On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Nathan Schoenack wrote:

>
> I've got a course coordinator that uses the same LON-CAPA course  
> for each semester.

Arghh ... really not a good idea. That's what we have "Clone Course"  
for.

>   He wants to delete all of the old discussion posts.  The only way  
> I found to do this was to navigate to the problem with discussion,  
> mark all NEW posts no longer, then change the current discussion  
> settings to display only new posts.

There is no other way ... except "Clone Course"

> This seems to do exactly what we want, but as far as I can tell, we  
> have to do this for each problem with discussion.  Is there any way  
> to do that for the entire course as a global setting?


Nope.

- Gerd.