# New Posts - Pending Approval
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-posts-pending-approval/23139
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 15, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-posts-pending-approval/23139 "2014-12-15T03:42:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@gingerman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerman)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-posts-pending-approval/23139/1 "2014-12-15T03:42:08Z")
There is a need in our college instance to approve the posts / moderate from students
Is this feature already present ?
I could see the below conversations but I am not able to find in the application. Any idea when it will be ready (if not already present) ?
> [@Pending post feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-post-feature/15386):
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> I think it would be very nice that in some category we accept pending post. So users can contribute, and staff can keep the quality of a category by choose which suites the best.
> [@Is it possible to schedule posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045):
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> There are times when I’d like to write a topic ahead of time, but not have the post go live until a specific time and date in the future. Is this possible now, or is it on the roadmap?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-posts-pending-approval/23139/2 "2014-12-15T05:13:12Z")
I do not see the need for a whole other topic on this, please reply / like to the existing ones.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-posts-pending-approval/23139/3 "2014-12-15T05:13:17Z")