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An integrated whiteboard would be an excellent option in discussions. Currently, a drawback with both Jamboard and Microsoft Whiteboard is there's no way to identify who contributes what to a whiteboard. Microsoft is adding live cursor so you can see...

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Most of the UI changes implemented so far are genuine improvements, but the only one I'm immediately unhappy about that doesn't appear to be a bug is the change to marking posts as read. I have the option enabled so that posts don't accidentally get ...

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Currently, we are not seeing the option to add rubrics to the new discussion layout. Has anyone else been successful in working with rubrics with this redesign?

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Currently, when a discussion is imported from another Canvas course, the creation date and author info comes into the newly created course.  For situations where course content is reused from year to year, it's very apparent to everyone how old the ...

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Has anyone seen that with the New Discussions Redesign turned on, that you no longer have the "next" or "previous" option to progress through Modules? Is this a bug or an expected option, like New Quizzes?

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Group Discussions are valuable, and work seamlessly, but not being able to open Group Discussions to the entire course community once completed and perhaps once closed for addition comments, misses the boat.  Is this feature for Discussions, specific...

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I’m not sure if this has been addressed, but for group discussions, please consider preventing any students not grouped in that particular group set from posting to the discussion board.  Currently if an ungrouped student accesses a group discussion ...

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For the discussion redesign, please consider creating an “automatic credit for participation” option similar to how Canvas surveys provide automatic credit for submission. For instance, when a student posts to a discussion board a given number of tim...

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For the discussion redesign, please consider allowing the option to enable both a student to-do AND a due date with different dates. If an instructors wants to have one date assigned to discussion original posts, and another date assigned to discussi...

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For the discussion redesign, please consider changing the "Reply" button text to Post, Share, or another label.  Many of our discussions are open ended, like a "Please share your questions about the final project" or "Post your introduction below!" f...

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I just checked settings in my beta instance (Ohio State).  When I enable New Discussions for the instance, it seems to default the feature to "on" in all courses.  In an individual course, an instructor can opt out.  As an admin, especially for a new...

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One of the biggest things that needs to be added is the ability to do multiple due dates. Discussions are best when students are prompted to come back over and over to discuss, not just post once. Having at least two due dates, if not three or four (...

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@Katrina-Hess I hope I'm posting this in the right place, but if not please let me know.  I believe the concern I'm writing about has previously been submitted as a ticket, and my excellent CSM suggested I post about it here as a feature request for ...

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Hello.  We are very excited about the plans for the redesigned Discussions tool.  Many of the features listed are ones that our faculty have needed for a long time, so THANK YOU.  Today, I am writing with some feedback on the Beta Release of the rede...

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