One of the things that's still causing significant issues for me and my students is longer discussions getting spread over more than one page.  It totally breaks the flow, and it's not always even obvious (especially to students) that there are addit...

After spending 30 minutes in online chat, I couldn't find a solution to this issue. As an instructor, I consider this a major design flaw!At the beginning of every semester, I import courses from the previous semester in Canvas, including all announc...

Hello All, I've seen a lot of feedback both in this user group and on the update posts about expand/collapse and preferences as well as rubrics, but there are a few other issues I've run into with how checkpoints have been implemented that I wanted t...

Apologies if this has been brought up elsewhere. I was testing Checkpoints, and when you select "Automatically assign" for the "Peer Reviews" type you are prompted with an extra date and time box. When you enter a date it defaults the time to 12:00AM...

[In response to the summer 2024 Canvas LMS updates...] There are two instructor over-ride abilities needed for discussion forums. The new "Collapse Threads" default is problematic for students -- since they often do not know they need to open-up the ...

When viewing a discussion with the role of teacher, the associated points are not displayed. However, when viewing it as a student, the points are shown at the top. Teachers have to select the 3 dots, then select "edit" and then scroll down to get in...

Hi Instructure folks.  The Discussion redesign has some good points to it, such as mentions, quoting, and reporting. Those are contemporary features that people can enjoy in an online course discussion. However it looks like threading is limited to j...

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE bring back the old Discussion format.  I really HATE how you can't see replies without clicking on each individual post.  Now students won't quickly see my contributions because I KNOW they aren't going to open every student's ...

Here is what happens when I try to search on a student's name: Search says I am on instance 1 of 22. I know there are not 22 instances. When I click on the down arrow to move to the next instance I get stuck in a loop between instance 1 and 2 (which ...

There are so many problems with New Discussions: jerky screen due to bloated programming, inoperable search feature, too much white space to easily see where we are, automatic page breaks mean we have to search multiple pages with a search function t...

So now the "posted on" date for delayed announcements is when you actually create the announcement, not when it is available for viewing.In the past, I have relied on the delayed announcement feature to send an email/push notification to students whe...

I absolutely HATE the new discussion board format.  It hides replies and each time you enter a board you have to hit expand threads to see them. We lost the black dots that indicated unread posts so now you have to read carefully to catch the unread ...

Is anyone else noticing that since the Discussions redesign, when grading discussions in Speedgrader, you can see a student's replies but not who they replied to? We used to be able to see that. Being able to see that makes it significantly easier to...

I ask my students to read every post I make in the discussions, even if I am responding to a different student - there are half a dozen effective practices baked into how I approach it - but with the update to discussions it appears that every reply ...

I fixed the probolem on my discussion by using these steps.  1-I changed the discussion from graded to ungraded and set an "available from" date to a few minutes in the future.  The discussion opened properly as available on my Canvas page.  2-I chan...

Like everyone else posting here, we’ve had a considerable amount of complaints from both faculty and students about the new discussion experience. It doesn’t look like Instructure has any interest in going back to the original design so we’ve been lo...

Hello! I am a current graduate student who also happens to be an instructor. I have used Canvas for many many years at several institutions and have always found it to be user-intuitive and a joy to use. I was surprised when I logged in for my Fall c...

It would be great if there was an option to batch-edit announcement dates, just like the batch editor for assignment dates. This would allow instructors to place announcements in draft (or schedule them for future posting) in batch. Many instructors ...

Spoiler  The redesigned discussions are causing all sorts of unhappiness. We want them to default to expanded threads and an "oldest first" sort. Is there a setting to make this happen? 

Wow, the new discussions format is making my teaching FAR more difficult. I am a unique user in that I have 3,000-4,000 students in a single class section. Each class session has a discussion. In the old discussions format, to keep my 10-15 comments ...

For my classes, my discussions are always "Post First," and I post my response (or try to) to the assignment before the students. In the past, the thread of replies was organized from oldest to newest. Now, it is automatically organized from newest t...

Three weeks into teaching with this new version,and I HATE the new discussions!  They force me, EVERY time, to go back to the top to re-expand threads.... and in all the years I've been teaching in Canvas and Blackboard, I have almost never needed to...

When someone replies to my discussion post, I am unable to access it by clicking "1 reply, 1 unread."  I have to go back to my email inbox and click the link to the discussion.  This is not optimal.  I would like the link to work to open the reply to...