"I can think of many reasons why a student in Class A would not want to be identified by students in Class B, but reasons do not matter, .."Kelly, out of curiosity, might you be able to give s...

I am not an expert on this topic but I have followed a lot of the discussion, Greg.Your approach (your school's approach) seems to be the most reasonable approach that I have seen so far.  Yes, it...

Erin, I am a little new to Canvas so I apologize if my question seems elementary. I am trying to understand the "equation" used to calculate Total Activity, so I will ask some questions about ...

I am not sure if this will help.I have found that with any LMS, the only way to be sure what a student sees is to have a bogus student login so that I can actually be a student, and see things exactly...

Your scenario doesn't make sense to me.  Student A cannot hide from Student B.  All that Student B needs to do is to be outside the door when all students in Section A are dismissed.  Hiding "...

I have recently encountered this problem and have made a post elsewhere.  I will do a quick reply here.Typically, the absence of color should imply an "absence of activity."  Items not read sh...

I stumbled upon this discussion because I was in a Canvas course as a student, and the course used discussions.  Here is what I discovered in the Canvas course.When I enter a discussion web page, all ...

Sadly, Russell, I had done the same thing.  However, there are times where my faith is rekindled.  I just happened to see Heather's post and thought I would give it another try.  @Heather, yep...

Yes, Julia, I understand.  I too used BB (wow, maybe 15 years ago) and even that old BB's discussion tool was better than what we have in the current Canvas.  I also used D2L, which was better.  A...

For instructors at my school who want something better, my instructional designers recommend third party products, such as Piazza.  But why should we have to keep going outside of Canvas for recognize...