Private Discussion on Canvas

[klepperj]

How can I make a discussion private so other students can't see a post?

[Stef_retired · Accepted solution]

Hello,  @klepperj , and welcome to the Canvas Community! Private discussions are not a feature in Canvas. If a student has posted something you do not wish other students to see, you will have to delete the post (and you might want to make a screenshot of it before deleting it if you need to preserve it for future interactions with the student in question). And if you wish to engage in a one-to-one conversation with a student, the Canvas Inbox and Conversations are designed for that purpose.

[DonVandeWalle]

FROM: Don Vandewalle at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, USA

SUBJECT: SUCCESS ON ADDING A JOURNAL FUNCTION via CURIO

We have found a fully functional journal product to use with CANVAS ----

For some background, in May of 2021, I posted detailed comments about my surprise and disappointment that CANVAS did not offer a journal function and also described the nightmare of attempting various bootleg operations.

On May 25, 2021, Matthew Hall of CURIO published a post indicating that his team in Melbourne, Australia had developed a full capacity LTI solution called the Learning Journal. In July, I contacted Matt about their LTI. His team worked with my team to add the LTI to a graduate EMBA organizational behavior course that I teach at Southern Methodist University.

As of August 28, 2021, we have CURIO’s Learning Journal working as a fully functional journal that students use every week for writing how they are integrating course content at work. Students can update the same journal writing stream during the entire semester, and I can provide feedback comments at any time.

If you’re interested in adding a fully functional journal to the CANVAS platform, I strongly recommend that you contact Matt and his team at:

Dr. Matthew Hall
www.thelearningjournal.co
matthew.hall@curio.co