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In looking at the Discussions redesign release 1 (and the upcoming releases) I am concerned about a few items that are highly consequential.  1. Editing after creating a Discussion is really difficult to access. For ungraded discussions, I still haven't found a way to edit. I think you just have to delete and start over again. For graded discussions, it is way confusing. As the instructional designer at a large CCC, we cannot adopt this until this is fixed.  2. I really am puzzled. I was so happy to see that you can assign by section rather than having to try to create groups to accommodate FERPA in crosslisted courses with discussions, but immediately dismayed to see that you cannot make discussions for specific sections graded. Why? The other assignments let you set a graded assignment for a specific section, but this is nowhere more important than discussions. It is quite possible we will lose the ability to crosslist, a very popular service likely to create significant backlash--because of how difficult it is to make FERPA compliant discussions in Canvas.  3. It would be great to see Canvas address the FERPA problems for crosslisted courses overall, which are well summarized here: https://kb.iu.edu/d/aqns Thanks!  ... View more

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