Hello everyone the discussion revision is creating a terrible problem trying to reply to students' initial posts.  The issue is that it is sorting them based on the last reply instead of the initial post date. I have never had that be the case in any learning system I have used and I cannot find initial posts that I have not responded to without scrolling up and down every time. There is no way to change the functionality on my end.    Currently the old system displays the initial posts in chronological order no matter when the last reply was. I am hoping that this can be restored because it is difficult and time-consuming to use this way. I selected the option to only view the unread messages, but it includes all of the replies not just the initial posts so again I am basically forced to scroll up and down through the entire page every time I need to respond which is four times a week. The initial posts are not in chronological order and there is no way to set them this way.   Instead of new posts coming at either the very top or the very bottom they are getting scattered throughout the entire page based on the date of the last reply so that I have to scroll down the entire page to see any new initial posts in order to reply to them. I have never had this with any learning system and it is not how the current discussions function so please do whatever you can to get canvas to fix this issue! ... View more

Hi, I was directed to post my feature idea here.    Problem statement: Currently, the permissions for the Mentions feature that is part of the Discussions Redesign is bundled together with the "Conversations - Send messages to individual course members" permission that, when disabled, prevents users from messaging one another using the Conversations tool. The problem is that institutions who disable this permission (perhaps due to FERPA or other privacy concerns) are now unable to use the Mentions feature. At our school, this is disabled for Students, rendering the feature mostly unusable for them. In this example, you can see that a student is trying to mention another student, but only those with the Teacher, TA, and Grader role appear in the list of options. The student posting ("Test Student, Paula Stu One") can also mention themselves, which seems odd. Proposed solution: Because Discussions is intended to be a more open forum of communication than Conversations, we'd like to request that the permissions be separated. ... View more

Hi, Quick question do we have any examples of what Anonymous discussions and grading will look like? We found in the recent blog post and I heard from support that your team is planning to implement this with the July 20 release. Our institution has pretty big concerns about this feature and would really like to see how it works with grading and speedgrader, but since it is not in beta or test our team cannot test it.  Would it be possible to get screenshots or get access to test it in beta or test?   Thanks, Josh  ... View more

The discussion redesign is heading in the right direction. I have commented on other features elsewhere, but one I thought worth mentioning was the readability of the replies, especially when you have nested replies enabled. It makes it difficult to see where posts begin and end because they aren't separated off with horizontal lines or boxes like original discussions.  I would like to see some sort of organization of the posts to make them easier to see and read.    ... View more

In the latest version of Canvas Discussions Redesign, there's a single checkbox option for allowing students to edit or delete their own discussion replies. However, this presents a limitation as instructors might want more nuanced control over student actions. I propose having separate settings for editing and deleting discussion replies, offering instructors the flexibility to choose whether students can:  ✅ Edit but not delete their own discussion replies.  ✅ Delete but not edit their own replies. Providing both options would allow instructors to accommodate a wider range of instructional preferences and give them more flexibility and control over student interactions in discussions. Thank you, Cheryl Tice ... View more