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Separate discussion permission for edit and delete posts   Current option allows users to: "Edit and delete their own posts"   I might want to allow students to "delete" their posts but not to edit th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In order to assess and grade a student on participation in the discussion boards, it would be helpful to be able to see all of that student's posts aggregated on a single page. Of course the replies w...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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As a K-12, we love that Canvas has built-in rubrics for assignments. We are also thankful that whatever rubric we create is displayed prominently, just beneath the content of the assignment while in s...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, Canvas allows only one file to be attached to a discussion reply. We often use discussion boards as way for students to share and comment on each other's work. Having the ability to share m...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Greetings: Thank you for your time in reviewing this idea. It would be wonderful if Turnitin were enabled for Discussions posts and responses. This would prevent students from cobbling together inform...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Our faculty would like to be able to subscribe to the group discussions in their course so they can follow along, be alerted when a student posts something new, post feedback, and keep discussions on ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2024-11-16)  With the way that m...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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