why do discussion posts have a terrible blue background suddenly in Speed Grader? Please remove immediately.

[mpaoletti]

I'm a faculty member, and today, without warning, discussion posts have a terrible blue background in Speed Grader, making them hard to read. Please undo this very silly thing. As users, you should really know better.

[kellyrouska]

This happened at my campus, too. It seems to be connected to the Discussions Checkpoints that were enabled in the Canvas instance. I went to our Beta Canvas environment and disabled the Discussion Checkpoints and the Speedgrader interface reverted back.  I've sent my CSM a message about it, because I didn't read anything about an interface change happening if we enabled the Discussion Checkpoints.  I hope to hear back.

[kellyrouska]

I attended the New & Next webinar where they went over the Discussion Checkpoint and the Speedgrader interface was an intended change.  With some of the negative feedback from users, Instructure said they're evaluating different options and will be posting an update in the community later today.

[mpaoletti]

Thanks! Fingers crossed! Who thought this was a good idea? SMH