Problem statement: Instructors are currently manually checking the word count for discussion posts when grading if they have a minimum word count for students to meet. I've seen the "[Discussions] Mee...

Problem statement: It should be possible (and is in other systems, and was with a Canvas work-around that was mysteriously removed some months back) to sort posts within a discussion in such a way as ...

Problem statement: Instructors and students cannot organize discussion topics within the discussion landing page. Even though discussion can be organized within modules. Instructors and possibly stude...

Problem statement: Students are circumventing the "post before seeing replies" option on discussion boards by submitting a post with one letter, which reveals other students' posts. Then they read thr...

Problem statement: I'd love for there to be a way to add a podcast cover image that would appear in whatever podcast player the student is using to listen to Discussion RSS podcast feeds. The visual c...

Problem statement: I replied to a student's discussion reply and then rethought my reply. I tried to delete my reply and somehow deleted the student's reply. I can not now retrieve that reply. Propos...

Problem statement: To increase student engagement and community, some of our faculty like to utilize video discussions that require students to post a video in response to a prompt as their initial re...

Problem statement: Because Discussion notifications are directly linked to those who are subscribed, we've noticed Discussions going largely unused due to students not seeing the activity within an op...

Problem statement: When you're in a discussion & you're looking at the posts in the discussion, they don't automatically update, so you can't see additional posts unless you reload the page, which can...

Problem statement: I have 30+ discussions that I monitor in the one Course. I currently close each for commenting at 4pm and re-open for commenting at 8am each school day. The reason for the discussio...

Often as an instructor, I want to post a series of threaded questions for students to reply to.   This keeps discussions organized and allows student/instructor choice.     When these questions are po...

When posting a discussion, rather than the only "reply" button, it would be great to have some other options with an "agree" and "disagree" buttons so that people can express their opinions, argue, de...

Emojis are only built into Canvas' Chat, but not in discussions.It would be really useful to have such a major feature integrated into discussions through a button in the text editor.Most people don't...

When I am using Discussions with Groups, I cannot make a "reply" that goes to all student groups. I would love it if an option would appear for me, the teacher, to do so, so that I could start groups ...

I would like to suggest that each discussion board created have it's own attachment setting instead of it being all or nothing.  I have some instructors that don't want that feature available in all d...

The idea: Our students (higher education: BA, MBA) have recently raised the following feedback: "discussions are disorganised. There is a mix of posts from the LEX team (student support), academics (t...

As an instructor, I have students post discussion questions and responses each week. If they posted something, they get the points. However, there is no way to automatically grade these-- I have to ma...

Assignments allow for us to check "Do not count this assignment towards the final grade" while still entering a grade/points. This allows for "progress report" grade.  I would love to see this option ...

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...

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...