About Archiving and Deleting Claims

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On Kialo Edu, claims can either be archived or deleted.
Archiving a claim puts the claim into a state where it is not considered to be “active” in the discussion. Archived claims can be unarchived.
Deleting a claim removes all record of it from a discussion. Deleting a claim is irreversible.
A claim must first be archived to be eligible to be deleted.

About Archived Claims

Archived claims are removed from the default view in a discussion, however can still be accessed by users and be commented on.
You can view or hide archived claims by clicking the (Visibility Settings icon) in the top-left of a discussion and checking or unchecking Show archived claims. When this is checked, you will also see archived claims in your search results, allowing you to search for archived claims.
For participants who were active in the discussion before the claim was archived, it will remain visible in the discussion as a “greyed out” claim until interacted with or the notification is marked as seen.

Note:

You must have the Writer role or above to archive your own claims and the Editor role or above to archive other users’ claims.

To archive a claim:

Right-click on the claim, or click on the … Menu icon that appears on a claim when you hover over it.
Select Archive.

Note:

You must have the Writer role or above to unarchive your own claims and the Editor role or above to unarchive other users’ claims.

To unarchive a claim:

Right-click on the archived claim, or click on the … Menu icon that appears on a claim when you hover over it.
Select Archive.

Reminder:

Be careful when deleting claims. Deleting an archived claim removes all record of it from a discussion, and deleted claims are unrecoverable.

To delete an archived claim:

Right-click on the claim, or click on the … Menu icon that appears on a claim when you hover over it.
Select Delete.