Automatic credit for participation
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For the discussion redesign, please consider creating an “automatic credit for participation” option similar to how Canvas surveys provide automatic credit for submission. For instance, when a student posts to a discussion board a given number of times, or perhaps at a certain word count, they're given full credit. This will save instructors time if they want to reward students for non-punitive engagement or asking and answering questions but don’t necessarily need to manually assess their learning as a summative assessment.
There are a number of ways to manage this, but a simple “points possible” and “minimum posts required for full credit” OR “minimum total words required for full credit” option may suffice. The points system could be "all or nothing" where a student's score is 0 until they meet the threshold, or on a sliding scale as they continue to post several times.
