I am running discourse for a relatively large course (200 students, 10-strong course team) and use it to publish all course announcements among other things. I am searching for best practices in preparing these announcements. We usually make a draft announcement as a topic in a category private to …

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! After a consideration, I believe that editing the message or the topic is more manual work than necessary, and therefore we’ll probably continue separating the announcement topic and the review topic.

I think this just publishes the topic and not the replies [image] Shared Drafts: Allow staff to collaborate on posts before publishing megaphoneAnnouncements I’ve recently merged a new feature into Discourse called Shared Drafts. The feature is meant for forum…

Thanks for letting me know about shared drafts—I was unaware about this feature, and it seems handy. I can’t, however, confirm what you said: in my testing, replies on a shared draft topic are published together with the draft itself.

Would it work for you to review in the announcement topic, then split the replies into a new topic prior to publishing? I.e. Get to the point where you have a topic you are ready to publish, plus the replies you don’t want to publish Click the wrench icon for the topic Select Posts… Select all Des…

A simple method we use is similar to yours. A private Category to work on an announcement. Once the announcement is finalized. Edit the post copy all. Then create you announcement in the student accessible course category and paste the announcement.

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ondrej January 15, 2022, 3:00pm 2

I think this just publishes the topic and not the replies

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