List of students on discussion board

[bmaas1]

Is there a way to find or create a list of students who have contributed to a discussion board? The board is not tied to the gradebook so we can't use that.

[greydon · Accepted solution]

Hello @bmaas1 

Thank you for contacting the Instructure Community. The short answer is - not really. Ideally, you could make the discussion graded and worth 0 points so that you can use the speedgrader and quickly see which students have submitted and which haven't. Besides that, you'd need to manually look through the discussion and view which students have contributed. Sometimes, we can run API calls to get lists for things like this but it doesn't look like the call exists for your specific request:

https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/assignments.html

Perhaps other users have found alternatives but those are likely your options without running other reports - but even then - most of those require them to be "assignments" to compile a list or csv of which users didn't contribute. 

[bmaas1]

Thank you so much! I like the grade as 0 idea, that's super helpful, I'll recommend that to the faculty member. Thank you!