Recent posts in other Community groups this week drew my attention to the anonymous posting feature available only in the redesign. I suggest that there are at least four changes needed to consider this feature completely & properly implemented.  Ano...

Hello, I am reaching out on behalf of instructors I support who have been utilizing the updated Discussions interface. Some instructors have expressed difficulty in clearly distinguishing between original posts and replies within discussion threads. ...

Hello, I wanted to bring to your attention a performance issue that instructors at my college have reported with the recently redesigned Discussions feature. During a recent Q&A session, an instructor mentioned that when a discussion has a large numb...

Hello, Currently, in Discussions Redesign, if an instructor selects settings, such as Expand Threads, some or all of their preferences return to the default settings upon leaving or refreshing the page. It is inefficient to have to reselect preferred...

In the Discussion redesign, I noticed the "Inactive" label doesn't appear like it did in the legacy discussion. If a student posts in the discussion and then drops the course (enrollments status = inactive), the used to have an "Inactive" label next ...

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 membe...

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 stude...

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 ...

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 an...

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 ...

Currently if the Anonymous Discussion has the options 'Off,' 'Partial' which gives students the option of sharing their name and profile picture, and 'Full' which means "student names and profile pictures are hidden from other course members, includi...

Greetings all, Normally I am not one to complain about changes that Canvas makes to its platform.  This Discussion Redesign breaks that norm for me in multiple ways.  With the legacy discussions, I could Very easily collapse and expand discussion thr...

Currently, the only way for faculty to be notified of reported replies in the discussions is by enabling the feature in the ‘Course Notifications’. However, there may be cases in which a faculty member forgets to enable this or is not aware they nee...

I'm happy to see that the Discussion Redesign is now available in the mobile app. One of the things it adds is access to the RCE which opens up the ability for students to access Canvas Studio in a discussion board. This is something we have wanted f...

Hi, I have a question about how to create a Focused Discussion in the new Discussions redesign. Basically, a focused discussion is one where the reply depth is flat. Students can only reply to the main post and not to any of the replies. Is there a w...

When replying to a discussion post, the dialogue box opens but the cursor does automatically start in the box, which is the norm with all discussion forums and websites. This is a small yet surprisingly annoying issue.  Current Workflow: read postcli...

Edit times on discussion posts no longer appear in Speedgrader when using the new discussions design. The edit times are still visible in the discussion itself, but it's EXTREMELY tedious to flip back and forth when you're trying to grade. This is e...

Anonymous discussions have been recently implemented, and that is great!  However, grading is not allowed for these discussions, even grading based on completion.  Why not allow the instructor to assign grades to each discussion post, without knowing...

Ahoy! A decade ago we applied CSS to the current Canvas discussion as we wanted the levels of the indent to be accentuated. This image depicts what we did. CSS Indents Does anyone plan on adjusting the redesign using CSS? For example, in this convers...

Problem statement: New Discussions functionality allows Instructor and TA roles to be labeled: Canvas Release: Discussions/Announcements Redesign However, Custom Roles based on Instructor or TA roles are not currently labeled in New Discussions. For ...

I've had the following questions raise while writing some training materials for Discussions Redesign for our faculty: Which notification preference controls post report messages?Why do reported posts not show in the teacher todo? Why are discussions...

 Pre-Redesign, when creating a topic I would choose whether it was going to be threaded or else a traditional one of limited depth. That option seems to be gone now. Does this mean all topics are now threaded and there's no choice in the matter?(I li...

We use the Module layout at our college. As such, we promote setting up as much as possible through + Module options. We found when +Module adding a discussion the creator doesn't have the option to change "Anonymous Discussion". However when created...

I am excited to see support for the Discussions/Announcements Redesign came to the iOS versions of Canvas Student and Canvas Teacher yesterday. That said, I want to suggest a couple of changes to its mobile implementation. The iOS system setting for ...

I noticed the redesign was put into place on our campus and I noticed a major issue for my classes. Overall, I think the redesign looks great and has positive aspects, but it make it extremely difficult to track my replies.  I try to "spread the disc...