Holistic discussion assessment

[bsrinvasan]

One of our instructors would like to see all posts by a single student throughout the semester. Lots of instructors use online discussion boards as a complement to in class discussion, and being able to easily see all of a student’s contributions to those discussions over the semester is important for assessing participation. To grade a student’s contributions effectively, they would like to be able to review them as a whole body of work, not just as a quantitative count of how many there were.

I really hope this functionality can be added soon. Since other LMS's such as Moodle can do it – as are countless internet message boards, where  you can easily click a user’s profile and have the option to “see all posts by this user” within a given time frame, Canvas should be able to as well.

[ProfessorBeyrer · Accepted solution]

@bsrinvasan, I was going to refer you to one of the existing ideas but then discovered that you've already made an excellent comment there:

[Discussions] Student Work Over Time - Instructure Community

Hopefully this idea will be soon added to a theme.