Students have a pathway to the RCE when Announcement comments are turned off.

[audra_agnelly]

For institutions (like ours) that have Announcement replies turned off, the Announcements Redesign interface is not consistent with the experience in a course where the Redesign has not been enabled.

In a non-Redesign course, only the teacher sees the Reply button and can post a reply. When the student views the reply and clicks the ellipse on the reply, they only see Go To Topic. (Go To Topic does nothing since you're already viewing the topic, but that's beside the point for this discussion).

If the Redesign is turned on in a course, the teacher is still the only role to see the Reply option, but when the student clicks the ellipse, they see several menu options. Most relate to threads and aren't necessary since discussions are disabled, but the "Quote Reply" selection opens the RCE and allows the student to enter a reply. When they try to post the reply they get an error message since replying is not enabled. This is a confusing workflow, if replies are disabled the student should never see a prompt to type a reply.

 

[kroeninm · Accepted solution]

@audra_agnelly are you still experiencing this behavior?  I'm gearing up to use New Discussions/Announcement so was reading through these discussions.

I only see Mark as Read/Unread now under Student View on Announcements when the commenting is disabled.

Thanks!

Melanie

[audra_agnelly]

Nope! I'm longer seeing those other menu choices on my announcement, just the 2 mark as read/unread options.

[Andy_Kalin]

@kroeninm I've been following this thread for a bit and had recreated the issue originally, and after seeing the recent updates indicating that the issue was no longer appearing for @audra_agnelly  I rechecked the issue this morning, and I'm still seeing the option to "Quote Reply" from the student's view when looking at the instructor's reply to the instructor's original announcement. Announcement replies are turned off at the system level, and the student receives an error if they try to reply to the announcement.

Regards,

Andy

[dbrace]

@Andy_Kalin, is this still happening?

[Andy_Kalin]

@dbrace Good question. I found a ticket I had for the issues, and it looks like Canvas deployed a fix on or around 2/28/24. It resolved it for our instance, and I just checked again and verified that I still cannot recreate the issue.

[b_w_reid]

I can't replicate this behaviour either, is this one fixed now?

[Andy_Kalin]

@b_w_reid just to confirm, based on a support case it looks like Canvas deployed a fix on or around 2/28/24. It resolved it for our instance, and I just checked again and verified that I still cannot recreate the issue.