Course communication outside of Term and Participation

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At our institution, we ran into an issue with keeping communication channels open between students and lecturers after our term and participation windows ended. We are legally obliged to have our lecturers grant our students access to their examination papers which often happens to be after the previous term has ended. We have now opted to extend the window that our courses are open (since we often had to reopen them manually so lecturers could use them to contact their students), however, this now means that our students' (and lecturers') dashboards have become very crowded indeed since course stay "active" longer. Our issue could be solved either by having an option to not have a course appear as active or by introducing an option to have communication open after the course's "active" window has ended.

 

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Naomi
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Hi @learning_suppor,

According to the functionality described in the Canvas Inbox Messages – Fully Obey Course Participation Settings and Dates idea conversation, students "can reply to an inbox message from their instructor after the course is unavailable in every other way. They can reply either from the inbox or from their outside email if they have a notification from a prior email." Does that solve for the functionality you were hoping for? 

Naomi

learning_suppor
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Dear @Naomi 

Thank you very much for your comment.

We will check the shared link as soon as possible and get back to you.

Have a great holiday season.

Best wishes, Fabienne

Naomi
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Hi @learning_suppor,

Just wanted to check back with you on this. Does the link provided earlier solve for the functionality you were hoping for? 

Naomi

KristinL
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Hi @learning_suppor -

We know life can get busy, yet if we don't hear from you by March 4, we will archive this thread so we can better focus on current requests.

KristinL
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Status changed to: Archived