[Discussions] Multiple Due Dates (checkpoints) for Discussions

[chriswhite]

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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.

[Stef_retired]

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]

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]

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]

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 Title	Opened	Time Open	Total Views	UP	DOWN	UP%
Printable / PDF-exportable quizzes	3/31/15	4 yrs, 11 mo, 30 d	35,608	2,461	29	98.84%
Allow folders in Pages	11/11/16	3 yrs, 4 mo, 10 d	27,822	2,250	82	96.48%
Multiple Due Dates (checkpoints) for Discussions	5/5/15	4 yrs, 10 mo, 4 d	30,246	2,201	14	99.37%
Create Question Banks from MSWord	5/17/15	4 yrs, 10 mo, 16 d	36,825	1,728	24	98.63%
Ability to Save and Copy from Frequently Used Comments in Speedgrader/DocViewer	5/15/15	4 yrs, 10 mo, 14 d	13,900	1,467	10	99.32%
Regrade quiz when deleting questions	9/1/15	4 yrs, 6 mo, 0 d	17,964	1,304	20	98.49%
Notifications by Course	10/27/15	4 yrs, 4 mo, 26 d	58,116	1,099	5	99.55%
Adjust all assignment and quiz dates on a single page	4/7/15	4 yrs, 11 mo, 6 d	19,681	1,076	9	99.17%
Submit an assignment on behalf of a student	4/14/15	4 yrs, 11 mo, 13 d	21,846	1,042	27	97.47%
Let us schedule a Publish Date / Time for Content Pages	11/16/15	4 yrs, 4 mo, 15 d	9,163	1,015	12	98.83%
		AVERAGE	27,117	1,564	23	98.54%
		MAX	58,116	2,461	82	99.55%
		MIN	9,163	1,015	5	96.48%

[lindsapj]

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]

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

[Stef_retired]

 @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]

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]

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]

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...