Does anyone else hate the new discussion area changes?

[TamaraPavlock]

I am not sure why these changes were made because it doubled my productivity when grading student work. Every time I assess for grading, I am not frustrated! 

These are my complaints: 

All replies at once can no longer can be viewed. 

When I am looking for my own responses in past courses to use for my current course, now I must click on each students reply to see my own 

It is impossible to follow a thread. 

The order has changed, and the newest replies are at the top, this makes it even harder to follow. 

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

@TamaraPavlock ...

Sorry to read that you have some frustrations with Discussions.  I don't work for Instructure (the folks that make Canvas), but I would like to offer up a couple links for you to look at:

• Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-08-14) - Instructure Community - 610769 (canvaslms.com) - there are some up-coming updates to Discussions listed here that will be available August 14, 2024
• Meet Tamas: Our New Discussions Product Manager - Instructure Community - 610749 (canvaslms.com)

Also, if you have suggestions on how the new Discussions interface could be improved, you can submit those as ideas here in the Community.  Here are a handful of Guides for you to look at under the heading "Ideas and Themes": Instructure Community Guide - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

[DebLeggett]

Tamara my colleagues and I have really struggled with this change. We teach a content course in which

1. the discussion forum is used like a classroom discussion regarding sample cases provided.

2. I have used this forum to teach to the entire class as I respond to one student's case discussion.

3. Students respond to each other's cases here.

4. This changes the way I teach to individualized instruction instead of group instruction.

5. Students are unlikely to expand all threads and read all of my teaching to the group.

This may require an entire course revision to be able to teach to the group.

Deb