Delete a Forum Topic or Reply

You can delete your own topics and replies, while forum moderators can also delete topics and individual replies posted by others.

To access forums from the Knowledge Center, your system role must have at least read-only access to the Knowledge Center feature in System Roles (Learner-oriented Features > Learn Features), and unrestricted access to the Forum feature (Learner-oriented Features > Communicate Features).

To delete others' forum topics and replies, your system role must have the Allow Forum Moderation permission in System Roles (Data Access Control > Role General Permissions).

To delete a forum topic or reply

1. Go to Home > Teach and select a Teach page tab. The Teach page opens at the selected tab.
2. Filter the sessions list, if required.
3. Select Launch Knowledge Center from a session's action menu. The Knowledge Center opens.
4. Click Forum. The forum category assigned to the course is listed.
5. Click the forum category title. The forum category opens in a new window and lists the forums assigned to it.
6. Click the name of the forum to see its topics. The forum topics are listed in order of recency: topics with the most recently added posts are shown first.
7. To delete a topic and all of its replies, select Delete from the topic's action menu. You are asked to confirm the deletion. 
8. To delete individual replies in a topic, click the topic name. The original topic post and its replies are shown.
9. Select Delete from the action menu of the reply to delete. You are asked to confirm the deletion.

Additional Information

About the Knowledge Center

About Moderating Forums

View and Reply to Forum Topic Posts

Create a New Forum Topic

Create a Discussion Forum

Edit a Forum from the Knowledge Center

Update Forum Permissions

Delete a Forum from the Knowledge Center