{"id":514,"date":"2022-08-05T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/hc\/uncategorized\/starting-and-stopping-discussions\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:41:09","password":"","slug":"starting-and-stopping-discussions","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/starting-and-stopping-discussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting and Stopping Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can limit the window for student contributions within a discussion by choosing when to start and stop it. This is especially useful if you&rsquo;re assigning a timed exercise or a task with a deadline.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h_01FKD0FTQFY65H426D873GJ047\">About Starting and Stopping Discussions<\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Discussions can be started or stopped, preventing participants from making any changes to the content of a discussion before or after a specific time period and date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discussions can be started or stopped manually, or scheduled to start\/stop at a specific time and date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When a discussion has been stopped, a popup notification appears informing participants they cannot make any further changes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If a stopped discussion is scheduled to be started, or vice-versa, the popup notification will include a countdown to when the discussion is scheduled to start\/stop.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When a discussion is first created, it is started by default.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To prevent students from making changes when they are first invited to a discussion, you can manually stop a discussion before inviting them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then, you can either manually start the discussion or schedule it to start at a later date and time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>While a discussion is stopped, discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/participant-roles-and-permissions\/\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Owners and Admins<\/a> are still able to edit the discussion settings.<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h_01FKD0FZKDTMAK4NH9ZVJ1HY5N\">How to Start\/Stop a Discussion<\/h2><section class=\"kialo-callout note\">\n    <div class=\"callout-icon-wrapper\">\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/wp-content\/themes\/wp-helpcenter-theme\/assets\/icons\/book.svg\" alt=\"note\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" class=\"callout-icon\">\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"callout-content\">\n        <em>Note:<\/em>\n\t\t<p>Only discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/hc\/participant-roles-and-permissions\/\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Admins<\/a> can start or stop the discussion.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section><p>To start or stop a discussion immediately:<\/p><ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click the <strong>&equiv;<\/strong> <strong>Discussion Menu<\/strong> icon in the top-left of a discussion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select <strong>Settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scroll down to the &lsquo;<strong>Start or Stop the Discussion<\/strong>&lsquo; section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select <strong>Stop Discussion Now <\/strong>or <strong>Start Discussion Now <\/strong>as appropriate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Save<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol><p>To schedule starting or stopping a discussion:<\/p><ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click the <strong>&equiv;<\/strong> <strong>Discussion Menu<\/strong> icon in the top-left of a discussion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select <strong>Settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Navigate to the &lsquo;<strong>Start or Stop the Discussion<\/strong>&lsquo; section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check the appropriate box to either <strong>Start the discussion at<\/strong>&hellip; or <strong>Stop the discussion at<\/strong>&hellip;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the desired date and time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Save<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can limit the window for student contributions within a discussion by choosing when to start and stop it. This is especially useful if you&rsquo;re assigning a timed exercise or a task with a deadline.About Starting and Stopping DiscussionsHow to Start\/Stop a DiscussionTo start or stop a discussion immediately:To schedule starting or stopping a discussion:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_doc_category":0,"wds_primary_doc_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[55],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-514","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-managing-a-discussion"],"acf":{"zendesk_id":"4410271576333"},"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":300,"total_views":"665","reactions":{"happy":"2","normal":"1","sad":"3"},"author_info":{"name":"jenkins","author_nicename":"jenkins","author_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/author\/jenkins\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Managing a Discussion","term_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/hc\/sections\/managing-a-discussion\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo-edu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}