# Disable course wiki and discussion

**URL:** <https://discuss.openedx.org/t/disable-course-wiki-and-discussion/741>\
**Category:** Site Operators\
**Created:** [October 22, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/disable-course-wiki-and-discussion/741 "2019-10-22T11:45:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kribby](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/kribby/32/171_2.png) [@kribby](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/kribby)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/disable-course-wiki-and-discussion/741/1 "2019-10-22T11:45:24Z")

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Is there a way to disable the course wiki and discussion features and remove these links from the navbar (highlighted in the screenshot below) completely?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/1X/41a614d35be51c0b0f2cfe977c43ffb140d50ac0.png)

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**Author:** ![kribby](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/kribby/32/171_2.png) [@kribby](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/kribby)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/disable-course-wiki-and-discussion/741/2 "2019-10-23T06:02:50Z")

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Ok so i just worked out how to disable the wiki:  
In lms.env.json and csm.env.json change  
“WIKI\_ENABLED”: true,  
to  
“WIKI\_ENABLED”: false,

I still don’t know how to disable discussion so please do share if you know

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**Author:** ![kribby](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/kribby/32/171_2.png) [@kribby](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/kribby)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/disable-course-wiki-and-discussion/741/3 "2019-10-23T06:59:48Z")

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Digging further -I found this

> <https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/blob/b3845b2b968d116c207edbab29a6830f981ad04f/lms/djangoapps/courseware/tabs.py>

I think this file is where I can disable the discussion tab - but I am not sure where .

I have another lead which is to amend the policy.json which is associated for each course (Course\_folder/policies/)

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**Author:** ![kribby](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/kribby/32/171_2.png) [@kribby](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/kribby)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/disable-course-wiki-and-discussion/741/4 "2019-10-23T10:11:33Z")

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Ok I just worked it out and the answer was very obvious.

Both are enabled and disabled via the lms.env.json  
So for Discussion set the following feature flags accordingly  
“ENABLE\_DISCUSSION\_HOME\_PANEL”: false,  
“ENABLE\_DISCUSSION\_SERVICE”: false,

For the wiki

Set the following accordingly  
“WIKI\_ENABLED”: false,

You should note that the wiki command above is not a feature flag and this command should be placed outside of the “FEATURES” group of settings.