Prevent students from deleting questions/notes | Voters

Prevent students from deleting questions/notes

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Mike Marsh

I would like to be able to prevent students from deleting their posts. I have a particular post in which a student asked for a regrade, and they subsequently deleted the post once it was resolved, so I have no context for how I handled this case when regrading other students' submissions.

November 10, 2020

Duong Nguyen

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Duong Nguyen

Hi Mike Marsh, thanks for the feedback. We'll add a feature that allows the instructor to lock a post so that the student can't delete or edit the post.

Mike Marsh

Duong Nguyen: I really need to be able to make this the default. I've had multiple cases of posts disappearing before I see the email notification, and sometimes those are useful for other students. It's usually because the student figured out the answer, but others might not be able to as easily.

Duong Nguyen

Mike Marsh: We can make this a default preference. However, it would require a "grace period" before the post can be locked from deletion. 
For example, if a user creates a post by accident, they should still be able to delete the post within 5 minutes of creating it. After that the post will be locked from deletion. 
This would prevent users from being frustrated with not being able to delete a post just because it was created by accident.

Eric Huber

This is also essential for academic integrity and preventing abuse by students.

Eric Huber

Note that students can already mark their posts visible to "TAs and instructors only" if they create one by accident.