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title: "Controlling Discussion Posts"
slug: "add-moderators"
tags: ["lgc"]
updated: 2024-09-27T15:49:05Z
published: 2024-09-27T15:49:05Z
canonical: "docs.skillable.com/add-moderators"
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# Controlling Discussion Posts

Discussions are a wonderful tool for opening dialogs with and between students. However, to be truly effective, at times posts, responses, and/or comments may need to be removed for the good of the overall discussion. Users with the Moderator role, when added to a discussion, have the ability to delete posts, responses, and comments from that discussion. All discussions should have at least one Moderator. Users with the Operations Manager role can assign the Moderator role.

## Add Moderators to a Discussion

To add one or more moderators to a discussion:

1. Edit the **Discussion** profile.
2. On the **Moderators** tab, select **Add.**
3. The Choose Moderators dialog will open. This dialog is pre-filtered for users from the Discussion’s Organization who have the specific moderator permissions. Use the filters to narrow the results and select **Search**.
4. Select the moderator(s) and select **OK**.
5. Select **Save**.

### Moderator Access to Discussions

A moderator can access discussions from the Course profile page(s) where the discussion is associated or from Find Discussions.

To access from a **Course** profile:

1. Select **Discussion** in the command area. This will take you to the topics and their posts.

To access from **Find Discussions**:

1. Select the name of the discussion in the search results.
2. Select **Posts** in the upper right corner to be taken to the topics and their posts.

Once in a discussion, to delete a post, response, or comment on the board, click the X to the right of the item.

Moderators that have not been assigned to a discussion may be able to access the discussion but will not be able to delete posts, responses, and comments.

View of discussion by Moderator assigned to it:

![view of discussion by moderator assigned to](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/disc-moderator.png)

View of discussion by Moderator not assigned to it:

![view of discussion by moderator not assigned to](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/disc-non-moderator.png)

Discussions are chat boards for users who have taken a course through a class or self paced to interact about the material.

People who interact with the platform. Typically, we can break down users into three categories: Operations Managers, Instructors and Basic Users..

A user role that is assigned to organization administrators. This is the highest level of permissions which customers can receive. It enables users to be able to create and manage users, content, training, pull reports, assign roles and organization management.

An organization is assigned to each entity in the TMS, such as, users, classes, subscriptions, and courses. The organization is a basis to determine access given based on roles within the organization and management over the organization.

Bundles together content to then be set up for training through classes, subscriptions, and course assignments. Courses can include labs, videos, SCORM, LTI, external links, assessments, and documents. Courses must be assigned to a Content Provider and a Publishing Group to be available to set up for training.