Notification emails should link directly to the post rather than the top of the thread

[canvas_admin]

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The notification links provided through notification emails should link to the actual post that the email is in reference to, rather than the entire discussion. If it could anchor to the actual post, the need to search through the long string of discussions would be avoided.

Moodle had this 4 years ago and from my understanding, it is a simple change to putting a permalink in the notification rather than a general link to the discussion.  This permalink exists because using the search function (or unread button) to filter posts will reveal the permalink by clicking on "view in discussion"

Comments from Instructure

January 2016 update

This idea has been completed.  Please find more information in the Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-01-30)

[peter_kupfer]

As a student and as a teacher this is very frustrating and, for me at least, discourages participation in discussion forums.

[canvas_admin]

Deactivated user​, that is a constant refrain I hear from our students and professors as well.

[Robbie_Grant]

I agree.  It is nice to click on a link and be taken directly to that section and not have to search for it.

Robbie

[SethBattis]

And, in fact, the permalinks for the posts should be visible by default. (Right now I use my own, buggy, hack to expose them, which is silly.)

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[canvas_admin]

I'm disappointed this didn't get enough traction.    And even Jive uses permalinks. Here's an example:   https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-3949#comment-11612

[Renee_Carney]

  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

January 2016 update

This idea has been completed.  Please find more information in the Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-01-30)

[Renee_Carney]

Thank you to  @canvas_admin  for submitting this idea, as well as, Deactivated user,  @Robbie_Grant ,  @SethBattis  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of the Canvas!

[canvas_admin]

Thank you, Instructure, for implementing this even though it didn't get 100 votes!   I was pleasantly surprised to see this in the production notes as I was not expecting this nice gift.

[canvas_admin]

So with "New Discussions" this 4-5 year old feature that I originally requested has now been taken away.  Can you please make this functionality a part of New Discussions!?  Why would you take something away like this after taking the time to implement it? This makes no sense!