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[patelp3]

Can you please help me figure out the best way in Canvas to do what I want to do?

I have 3 groups who are each creating a presentation and submitting it to me in Canvas (as a group assignment) for a grade (which I know how to grade, as a group or individual).

I also want to set up a Discussion assignment perhaps, where other students from the other groups watch the presentations and comment. However, I want the responses/comments to be individual, for individual grades. (I want the students to learn the information from their classmates' presentations.)

Is a Discussion assignment the best way to do this? If so, how do I do this? Should I post the instructions as I usually do, and then post 3 separate "Replies" to my own Discussion, and post one video in each Reply? That way, students respond to the two video posts of the videos they have not seen?

I want students to view and respond to the videos from the other groups (for an individual grade for each student).

Will this work? Is this the best way? Or is there a better way? 

Thank you

[SusanNiemeyer · Accepted solution]

I would set up three separate Discussions. For example:

Blue Team Presentation - watch and respond

Red Team Presentation - watch and respond

Green Team Presentation - watch and respond

I think that your students will end up very confused if there is just one Discussion with three videos embedded in it. That set-up is too complicated, and a lot of students will end up responding to just one of the videos.  

[patelp3]

Thank you so much!! 

[MONO]

My discussion boards have been glitched like this for a month and I have no clue on how to fix it, Its been irritating struggling to see my classmates names.

[Chris_Hofer]

@MONO ...

That is pretty strange!  I am not sure if you are an instructor or a student.  If you are an instructor, I wonder if there is some rogue HTML code in the body of your discussion prompt for your students that is causing this?  It's hard to know without looking at the exact code for that particular discussion topic.  I recommend reaching out to the Canvas Support folks so that they can help look at this issue with you.  They may be able to do a deeper dive into this topic to see what might be going on.  Please come back to this topic if/when you are able to find a solution so that you can update this thread.  Thanks!

[MONO]

Hi,
I'm a student, and I had tried to contact Support but they saw it as nothing was wrong with it, which really confused me too. They said try clearing my Cache and cookies, and when I did that nothing changed. But thank you anyways!