Visibility on group discussions on Canvas

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FotiosGkouvas
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Hello team

I am not a student. I was wondering if I create a discussion on a course and then set it as group discussion for a specific group of students, let's call it group A then:

  • Will the rest of the students not in group A be able to see the discussion?
  • If they are able, how much content will they be able to see?

Thank you

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Chris_Hofer
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Hi there, @FotiosGkouvas ...

So I did some testing in my own sandbox course.  I created a new Group Set via the "People" page of my course, and then I created only one Group within the Group Set.  I then put a dummy student in that Group.  I had one additional dummy student enrolled in the course, but I did not put that dummy student in a Group.  I also created a group discussion topic based on that Group Set.  When I logged in as the first dummy student, it looked like I could reply to the topic, but it wasn't going to the group's discussion...but rather to the main discussion.  I logged out of the first dummy student and then logged in as the second dummy student (the one that was not in a group).  I could see the first dummy student's posting.

Then, I decided to create a second group in the Group Set, and then I put the second dummy student in that second Group Set.  When I logged in as the first dummy student, I was still replying to the main discussion topic, and it was not posting to the Group discussion.  But, when I logged in to the second dummy student's account, I was not able to see the first dummy student's responses.

I'd encourage you to try this out yourself, too.  You can do that in a couple different ways:

I hope that this will be of some help to you.  Sing out if you have any questions...thanks!

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