Discussion boards let learners and instructors discuss course content in your academy. They can ask questions, share context, and reply to each other without leaving the course. An academy admin must turn on discussion boards before learners and instructors can use them, then choose how to moderate posts.
Turn on discussion boards
Navigation: UKG Learning > Academy Workspace > Settings > Training > Courses
Under Courses, turn on the Discussion boards in courses toggle.
This setting is off by default. When you turn it on, these options become available across the academy:
- Two academy notifications related to discussion boards and a personal discussion-board notification.
- A course-level setting to turn the discussion board on or off for each course.
- The Discussion Board entry point on the course-about page for learners and instructors, and in the Manage Course panel for admins.
When you turn this setting off, these options are hidden. Existing discussion content is not deleted, but it is inaccessible until you turn the setting on again.
Require approval before posts are published
When Discussion boards in courses is on, the All posts need admin approval to become public setting is available. It is off by default.
- Off: Posts and replies are published to the discussion board immediately.
- On: New posts and replies remain pending until an admin, training manager, or course creator approves or declines them from the course’s Discussion Board page. Approved posts are visible to everyone with access to the course. Declined posts are not published. This setting also applies to edits.
Let learners edit their posts
When Discussion boards in courses is on, the Team members can edit their thread posts setting controls whether team members can edit their discussion posts and replies after publishing them.
When this setting is on, team members can edit the posts and replies they wrote. When it is off, they cannot edit posts or replies after publishing them.
Note: These three settings apply across the academy. To control whether a specific course has a discussion board, use the course-level Discussion board setting.