Exporting discussion board posts

[pflint]

How do I access all of a student's discussion board posts for exporting into another document?

[KristinL · Accepted solution]

Hi Patricia -

While I haven't done a lot of exploring myself, copying and pasting the student's page from SpeedGrader on a discussion-by-discussion basis is what comes to mind. I know it's laborious and time-consuming. It's not a great long-term solution for instructors and institutions that need routinely need the information. (If another Community member knows a better solution, I'd be excited to learn about it too...even if I wouldn't use it with classes I teach.)

I did a little bit of searching, and I was able to find these Feature Ideas which are related to your question:

https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/1506-export-discussions 

https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/5356-download-discussion-board-posts 

[JohnHogan]

The idea of exporting discussion posts does not seem like a practical modern solution. It seems positively Medieval to me.

[JessicaHos]

This is for anyone still searching for an answer. 

Have your LMS Admin use an API call to export discussion post submissions: 

GET /v1/courses/{course_id}/assignments/{assignment_id}/submissions

Here's the documentation from Canvas for Submissions.

When we pulled the data, any 'span/strong' special HTML came over with it, so it required a little cleaning up before sending it to the department that requested the information.