I am looking for a feature to be added in Populi where faculty can turn off the edit feature for students who post on the discussion boards.Some faculty would like to turn the feature off so students cannot edit the content in their posts based on peer feedback or what they read in their peers’ posts. Currently, the only way to monitor this is to compare edited posts to the original for every student who has edited a post. Since this process is time-consuming, faculty have no efficient way of ensuring all students are being graded on their own original work. Before Populi introduced the latest edit feature, students had to email faculty to ask if they could change what they submitted, but now they can do it silently with the edit feature. Faculty want to make sure all students are being graded fairly and that plagiarism isn't occurring.
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Adam Sentz Official comment You can now disable comment editing in course discussions.
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Adam Sentz @Jennifer - Have you considered using the Peer Review Essay assignment type instead of a discussion post for this?
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Jennifer Arel This continues to be a problem. Our programs have been designed where discussions are graded by the faculty. I still see no way for a professor to disallow this feature and continue to get complaints from faculty.
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