edx-platform - How to delete a comment thread in discussion
Right now, there is no UI for deleting a comment thread in a course in Open EdX, you have to do it at the server side: 1. Get the comment thread ID by looking at the URL, for example: http://mydomain.com/courses/MYSCHOOL/Cu_001/201405/discussion/forum/i4x-MYSCHOOL_X_001-course-201405/threads/ 53b0eeec1240cdb524333331 2. Go the the server, access the mongodb cli, delete the comment by ID: edxapp@demo:~/edx-platform$ mongo MongoDB shell version: 2.4.10 connecting to: test Welcome to the MongoDB shell. For interactive help, type "help". For more comprehensive documentation, see http://docs.mongodb.org/ Questions? Try the support group http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user > use cs_comments_service_development switched to db cs_comments_service_development > db.contents.remove({"_id": ObjectId("53b0eeec1240cdb524333331")}) P/S: I also updated this to the documentation of OpenEdX's comment service: htt