[Discussions] Discussion Post Revision History

[james_dannibale]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS

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There should be a revision history for discussion posts for many reasons.

• If a student says something against the school behavior standards but then edits it, we need a record of what was said.
• If we use "must post before seeing replies" sometimes students will post a blank space to see the replies and then edit their response. Yes we see that editing was done, but we don't know that the blank space thing happened.
• As much as we'd like to think this would never happen, right now a teacher can edit a student's post to be a crappy post and then assign a low grade. The student has no record of what the original post said when making a grade appeal.

I feel like this one's a no-brainer and ought to be fixed ASAP. 

[KristinL]

  Comments from Instructure

Please watch the Canvas Release Notes for additional updates.

[KristinL]

  Comments from Instructure

This feature is available in Beta. For more information, please read through the Release Change Log -- 2023-11-08.

How do I access the Canvas beta environment as an instructor?

[KristinL]

Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the  Discussions/Announcements Redesign: Release Change Log.

[ModeratorPanda]

Comments from Instructure

With the release of the Announcements/Discussion Redesign, the Product Team has identified this idea as Completed.

For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2024-07-20).