Run report on number of posts submitted per student to discussion activity?

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lynchj12
Community Explorer

Hello Canvas Universe,

I'm looking for a way that I can easily check who has submitted the full number of posts required for a discussion activity. For example, an initial post and reply to someone else (2 posts total) is required. I would love to be able to download a report that lets me know who hasn't submitted the reply yet so that I could send them a reminder.

I know I can manually check each student's submissions via speedgrader, but is there a way to do this more easily and on a larger scale?

Hoping for a solution,

Jena

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cstrikwerda
Instructure
Instructure

Hello @lynchj12 
I understand we are looking at student submissions inside a discussion, and want to be able to download a report showing how many times each student has posted a reply to the discussion thread, or see this in the Canvas interface somewhere on a large scale. 

The best way in Canvas to see that information would be to go into via the API

https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/discussion_topics.html#method.discussion_topics_api.entries

So in the browser it would be viewed https://instance.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/course_id/discussion_topics/:topic_id/entries

From the API we can look and see each response by filtering by a "user_id": which will show how many times a user has responded by how many different response entries show in the API.

It looks like viewing this in the Canvas interface in a way without searching is not a feature in Canvas right now unfortunately.

I would have to recommend to @Chris_Hofer mentioning this custom solution with those references as well as those look promising. 

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