Updated Discussion Forum...Not thrilled about it

[bbulycz]

I am trying to give myself some time to adjust, but the updated discussion forum is not sitting well with me. It is great that it finally identifies the teachers as teachers when they post and there are some good things with the sorting and @mentions. But there are no borders for the posts. It is difficult to clearly see when one post ends and the next begins. It was much better when the reply posts and initial posts were in their own little textbox. 

Also, when you collapse the posts it is no longer collapsing initial posts. It was more functional when you could completely collapse all threads in their thread box.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @bbulycz ...

I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of moving your posting to the "Discussions/Announcements Redesign" Feature User Group here in the Canvas Community in hopes that it will get a bit more visibility from those that work with the redesign of Discussion topics.  Good luck!

[JacquelynChrist]

Oh no - the announcements were redesigned also - ugh!

This is not a good redesign. Rather than seeing the replies automatically, I now have to click a button that says '1 Reply' - not once but TWICE! It appears that once I open the replies, they stay open. The borders are missing also. That helped to see the distinction between posts.

Redesignes that add work for the instructor are not good. Please go back to the previous version!

[Chris_Hofer]

@JacquelynChrist ...

The Discussion/Announcement Redesign enforcement goes into effect on Saturday, July 20th.  My understanding is that this will apply for all Canvas schools...with no option to roll back to how things used to be.  I'm a fellow Canvas user like yourself, so I can't speak for Instructure (the folks that make Canvas) as to rolling back to previous versions...which I'm guessing won't be possible.  Maybe you could submit an idea to the Community on how you'd like to see Announcements improved with the Redesign.

Instructure Community Guide - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Check out the "Ideas and Themes" portion of the link above.

Hope this helps!

[Enkil]

I agree with you.

In my case, I am having a hard time managing responses to alumni, and sometimes I notice I even respond twice to the same post because I don´t see the whole thread clearly. 

I think you could include more visual elements to clarify if you previously answered the post and see all the threads in a separate lateral panel

Regards,