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How to Manage Comments In Memberships

Course creators and teachers want to know if their course is effective in helping students learn. Feedback is a critical component of learning.

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  1. Enable comments for all lessons within a category.
  2. Enabling comments for selected lessons within a category
  3. Filtering between products
  4. Enabled:
  5. Hidden:
  6. Locked:
  7. Managing comments for all products:
  8. Change comments visibility from User Only to Public
  9. Delete and restore comments:Deleting a comment:
  10. Restore a deleted comment :

Course creators and teachers want to know if their course is effective in helping students learn. Feedback is a critical component of learning. 

Providing timely and effective feedback helps students improve their performance and become better learners. Adding comments to your memberships will create an environment where this can be achieved.
In this article, we will look into how to enable, hide and lock your membership comments. 


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How to enable, hide and lock your membership comments: 

What does each comment feature do?

Managing comments for all products:


How to enable, hide and lock your membership comments: 

Enable comments for all lessons within a category.

Open the Products tab > Select an existing Product or create a new one > Click on the comments section > Select

the category you would like to enable, hide or lock comments for

Enable comments for all lessons within a category. (image 1 of 9) What this shows Change comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments: What this shows Illustrates the "Enable comments for all lessons within a category." section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". This animation appears in the "Enable comments for all lessons within a category." section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". The text alongside this image reads: Change comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments. This part of the guide covers 1 field, listed below. Immediately after, the guide continues: Access your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ". Image 1 of 9 What this coversChange comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments:
Fields in this part of the guide Change comments visibility from User Only to Public
Buttons and menus referenced Products tabProductcreate a new onecomments section >enable, hidelockenable, hide,andcomments within a category.Filtering between productsEnabledHidden
Next stepAccess your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ".
All 2 steps in this procedure
  1. Change comments visibility from User Only to Public
  2. Delete and restore comments:

Enabling comments for selected lessons within a category

Open the Products tab > Select an existing Product or create a new one > Click on the comments section > Select which lessons you would like toenable, hide, and lock comments within a category.

Enabling comments for selected lessons within a category (image 2 of 9) What this shows Change comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments: What this shows Illustrates the "Enabling comments for selected lessons within a category" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". This animation appears in the "Enabling comments for selected lessons within a category" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". The text alongside this image reads: Change comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments. This part of the guide covers 1 field, listed below. Immediately after, the guide continues: Access your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ". Image 2 of 9 What this coversChange comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments:
Fields in this part of the guide Change comments visibility from User Only to Public
Buttons and menus referenced Products tabProductcreate a new onecomments section >enable, hidelockenable, hide,andcomments within a category.Filtering between productsEnabledHidden
Next stepAccess your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ".
All 2 steps in this procedure
  1. Change comments visibility from User Only to Public
  2. Delete and restore comments:

Filtering between products

Filtering between products (image 3 of 9) What this shows Change comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments: What this shows Illustrates the "Filtering between products" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". This animation appears in the "Filtering between products" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". The text alongside this image reads: Change comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments. This part of the guide covers 1 field, listed below. Immediately after, the guide continues: Access your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ". Image 3 of 9 What this coversChange comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments:
Fields in this part of the guide Change comments visibility from User Only to Public
Buttons and menus referenced Products tabProductcreate a new onecomments section >enable, hidelockenable, hide,andcomments within a category.Filtering between productsEnabledHidden
Next stepAccess your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ".
All 2 steps in this procedure
  1. Change comments visibility from User Only to Public
  2. Delete and restore comments:

What does each comment feature do?

Enabled:

An "Enabled" comment box will be visible on the page and will show existing comments

in the thread and will give your students the ability to add new comments.

Enabled: (image 4 of 9) What this shows Change comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments: What this shows Illustrates the "Enabled:" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". This screenshot appears in the "Enabled:" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". The text alongside this image reads: Change comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments. This part of the guide covers 1 field, listed below. Immediately after, the guide continues: Access your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ". Image 4 of 9 What this coversChange comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments:
Fields in this part of the guide Change comments visibility from User Only to Public
Buttons and menus referenced Products tabProductcreate a new onecomments section >enable, hidelockenable, hide,andcomments within a category.Filtering between productsEnabledHidden
Next stepAccess your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ".
All 2 steps in this procedure
  1. Change comments visibility from User Only to Public
  2. Delete and restore comments:

Hidden:

A "Hidden" comment box will not be visible on the page and will not show existing comments in the thread.

Locked:

A "Locked" comment box will remove the ability for your students to add new comments, however, the existing
comments will still be visible.

Locked: (image 5 of 9) What this shows Change comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments: What this shows Illustrates the "Locked:" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". This screenshot appears in the "Locked:" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". The text alongside this image reads: Change comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments. This part of the guide covers 1 field, listed below. Immediately after, the guide continues: Access your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ". Image 5 of 9 What this coversChange comments visibility from User Only to Public Delete and restore comments:
Fields in this part of the guide Change comments visibility from User Only to Public
Buttons and menus referenced Products tabProductcreate a new onecomments section >enable, hidelockenable, hide,andcomments within a category.Filtering between productsEnabledHidden
Next stepAccess your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ".
All 2 steps in this procedure
  1. Change comments visibility from User Only to Public
  2. Delete and restore comments:

Managing comments for all products:

Access your comments manager for your Products in the "Products" tab > Click Products > Click "Manage Comments".

Managing comments for all products: (image 6 of 9) What this shows Access your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ". What this shows Illustrates the "Managing comments for all products:" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". This animation appears in the "Managing comments for all products:" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". The text alongside this image reads: Access your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ". The navigation path used here is Click Products > Click. Immediately after, the guide continues: On a particular comment in the " comments manager " select " User Only " or " Public " in the drop-down to change the visibility. Path: Click Products > ClickImage 6 of 9 What to clickAccess your comments manager for your Products in the " Products " tab > Click Products > Click " Manage Comments ".
Buttons and menus referenced ProductsManage Comments
Next stepOn a particular comment in the " comments manager " select " User Only " or " Public " in the drop-down to change the visibility.

Change comments visibility from User Only to Public 

On a particular comment in the "comments manager" select "User Only" or "Public" in the drop-down to change the visibility.

User Only: 

The comment will be visible to the course creatorand thestudent who posted the comment.

Public:

The comment will only be visible to all students and the Course Creator

Change comments visibility from User Only to Public (image 7 of 9) What this shows The comment will only be visible to all students and the Course Creator What this shows Illustrates the "Change comments visibility from User Only to Public" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". This screenshot appears in the "Change comments visibility from User Only to Public" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". The text alongside this image reads: The comment will only be visible to all students and the Course Creator. Immediately after, the guide continues: Click Products > Click Manage Comments > Find and select the comment you wish to delete > Click delete. Image 7 of 9 What this coversThe comment will only be visible to all students and the Course Creator Next stepClick Products > Click Manage Comments > Find and select the comment you wish to delete > Click delete.


Delete and restore comments:
Deleting a comment:

Click Products > Click Manage Comments > Find and select the comment you wish to delete > Click delete.

Delete and restore comments:Deleting a comment: (image 8 of 9) What this shows Click Products > Click Manage Comments > Find and select the comment you wish to delete > Click delete. What this shows Illustrates the "Delete and restore comments:Deleting a comment:" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". This animation appears in the "Delete and restore comments:Deleting a comment:" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". The text alongside this image reads: Click Products > Click Manage Comments > Find and select the comment you wish to delete > Click delete. The navigation path used here is Click Products > Click Manage Comments > Find. Immediately after, the guide continues: Click Products > Click Manage Comments > Click " Deleted " tab > Find and select the comment you wish to restore > Click restore. Path: Click Products > Click Manage Comments > FindImage 8 of 9 What to chooseClick Products > Click Manage Comments > Find and select the comment you wish to delete > Click delete.
Buttons and menus referenced ProductsManage Commentsdelete
Next stepClick Products > Click Manage Comments > Click " Deleted " tab > Find and select the comment you wish to restore > Click restore.

Restore a deleted comment : 

Click Products > Click Manage Comments > Click "Deleted" tab > Find and select the comment you wish to restore > Click restore.

Restore a deleted comment : (image 9 of 9) What this shows Click Products > Click Manage Comments > Click " Deleted " tab > Find and select the comment you wish to restore > Click restore. What this shows Illustrates the "Restore a deleted comment :" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". This animation appears in the "Restore a deleted comment:" section of "How to Manage Comments In Memberships". The text alongside this image reads: Click Products > Click Manage Comments > Click " Deleted " tab > Find and select the comment you wish to restore > Click restore. The navigation path used here is Click Products > Click Manage Comments > Click. Path: Click Products > Click Manage Comments > ClickImage 9 of 9 What to chooseClick Products > Click Manage Comments > Click " Deleted " tab > Find and select the comment you wish to restore > Click restore.
Buttons and menus referenced ProductsManage CommentsDeletedrestore

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