[Discussions] Export Discussions

[CindiKerns]

Please consider a feature that will allow students to export discussions and related threads. This can be a helpful resource at the end of the course. Professors will want the ability to release discussions for export so a release date option would be needed.

[tlgianakos]

Problem statement:

Admins are unable to export all comments made by students to understand general sentiment about the course, its content, and what suggestions for improvements should be made by the Institution for future releases. I.e. comments made in the course that would signal an investigatation should be conducted to determine if there is a content error, functionality error, or if students are simply having a hard time learning the material within the course. The collection of this data into one place (a CSV or other, simliar format would be ideal) is important because it is written by the customer, in their own words, and allows admins to then use other tools like ChatGTP to summarize the data. Summarizing the data is easy to do when only a few posts are made but when the volume is thousands, no one admin has the time to do this work. For example, in a CFA Program course last year, one of our testing windows received over 3,500 posts.

Proposed solution:

Create an export function for all course creators/admins to review comments. Within the report, easily identify who was the original poster of a comment, any replies (and who they were), and the overall total number of comments made in a course.

User role(s):

admin,instructor,ta,designer,observer