[Discussions] Multiple Due Dates (checkpoints) for Discussions

Idea is currently in development

With the way that many schools set up forum discussions and require "check-ins" to the forum throughout the week, it would be great if we could include multiple due dates in the discussion activities. For instance, I have classes that require everyone respond to the prompt by Thursday night and respond to at least 2 peers by the following Sunday. Being able to remind students that they have responses due, especially if we could scatter responses over multiple days, would likely increase participation.
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Stef_retired
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni

Hi,  @mpeterspanunto , we do not have an update to share at this time. To see what our product team is currently working on, please have a look at the Ideas home page.

mpeterspanunto
Community Novice

Thank you, but this has been an ongoing problem for over five years and Blackboard apparently is able to handle this issue. This is also one of the most requested changes asked by instructors.

lindsapj
Community Novice

Hi Stefanie,

Whatever Canvas is working on, it doesn't have as many requests as this.

SInce 2015.

We could use this now more than ever.

Patrick Lindsay, TCPL

College of Liberal Arts and Applied Science

Department of Commerce Faculty

Miami University

Pi Sigma Epsilon Professional Co-ed Fraternity, Co-Faculty Advisor

Office: Commerce Hub at Voice of America Campus - Rm 117J

7847 VOA Park Drive West Chester, Ohio 45069 Phone. 513-505-0828

*"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.

The hard is what makes it great." Manager Jimmy Dugan, Rockford

Peaches - from A League of Their Own. *

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:27 PM stefaniesanders <instructure@jiveon.com>

mitchel_stimers
Community Novice

Of the top 10 requests still out there for consideration, when ranked by up/down vote difference, this one is #3, with 2,201 up and 14 down, or an "up" percentage of 99.37 (Only "Notifications by Course" has a higher percent, 99.55% "up"). "Multiple dates" has been open for discussion for 4.88 years, which is 5th place in the top 10.

Here's a little run-down on the top 10 requests, including this one (asc, up-votes):

Post TitleOpenedTime OpenTotal ViewsUPDOWNUP%
Printable / PDF-exportable quizzes3/31/154 yrs, 11 mo, 30 d35,6082,4612998.84%
Allow folders in Pages11/11/163 yrs, 4 mo, 10 d27,8222,2508296.48%
Multiple Due Dates (checkpoints) for Discussions5/5/154 yrs, 10 mo, 4 d30,2462,2011499.37%
Create Question Banks from MSWord5/17/154 yrs, 10 mo, 16 d36,8251,7282498.63%
Ability to Save and Copy from Frequently Used Comments in Speedgrader/DocViewer5/15/154 yrs, 10 mo, 14 d13,9001,4671099.32%
Regrade quiz when deleting questions9/1/154 yrs, 6 mo, 0 d17,9641,3042098.49%
Notifications by Course10/27/154 yrs, 4 mo, 26 d58,1161,099599.55%
Adjust all assignment and quiz dates on a single page4/7/154 yrs, 11 mo, 6 d19,6811,076999.17%
Submit an assignment on behalf of a student4/14/154 yrs, 11 mo, 13 d21,8461,0422797.47%
Let us schedule a Publish Date / Time for Content Pages11/16/154 yrs, 4 mo, 15 d9,1631,0151298.83%
AVERAGE27,1171,5642398.54%
MAX58,1162,4618299.55%
MIN9,1631,015596.48%
lindsapj
Community Novice

Mitchel,

Thank you for the excellent statistics. We are many who are baffled by the

lack of responsiveness, acknowledgement and understanding by Canvas.

Patrick Lindsay, TCPL

College of Liberal Arts and Applied Science

Department of Commerce Faculty

Miami University

Pi Sigma Epsilon Professional Co-ed Fraternity, Co-Faculty Advisor

Office: Commerce Hub at Voice of America Campus - Rm 117J

7847 VOA Park Drive West Chester, Ohio 45069 Phone. 513-505-0828

*"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.

The hard is what makes it great." Manager Jimmy Dugan, Rockford

Peaches - from A League of Their Own. *

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 9:30 PM mitchel.stimers@park.edu <

kena_ray
Community Novice

Can you please explain the reason this is not currently under development?

Stef_retired
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni

 @kena_ray ‌, the home page of the Ideas‌ page shows the features and enhancements currently being developed and released. As you can see on the Developing tab, we are currently working on a large number of new features and changes; our product and engineering teams are well aware of the need for this particular enhancement, and as updates become available we'll post them on the Ideas page and provide comments here in this thread.

lindsapj
Community Novice

Thanks for taking the time to respond, Stefanie. This has been in the

queue for five years now. I have saved more than one hundred comment

emails endorsing it.

It would be interesting to see if there is this type of documented support

for all of the other projects your dev and engineering teams have completed

during the last half decade.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:55 PM stefaniesanders <instructure@jiveon.com>

lindsapj
Community Novice

Thanks for taking the time to respond, Stefanie. This has been in the

queue for five years now. I have saved more than one hundred comment

emails endorsing it.

It would be interesting to see if there is this type of documented support

for all of the other projects your dev and engineering teams have completed

during the last half decade.

Patrick Lindsay, TCPL

College of Liberal Arts and Applied Science

Department of Commerce Faculty

Miami University

Pi Sigma Epsilon Professional Co-ed Fraternity, Co-Faculty Advisor

Office: Commerce Hub at Voice of America Campus - Rm 117J

7847 VOA Park Drive West Chester, Ohio 45069 Phone. 513-505-0828

"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.

The hard is what makes it great."

Manager Jimmy Dugan, Rockford Peaches - from A League of Their Own.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:52 PM kena.ray@asu.edu <instructure@jiveon.com>

jamipruitt
Community Novice

I created this account just to pitch that idea. I am a good student, but I have forgotten both to post the initial discussion by the due date (because it doesn't alert me) and I have forgotten than I hadn't done a response to a student for one db.The setup is terrible...