The list of good reasons for this feature is long, as everyone has kindly pointed out (too kindly at this point, in my view). Yet Canvas techs offer neither comments nor action, as Brandon points out....

     Yes, Jocelyn, that's the question – how is this not a priority? And wouldn't it be nice if our students were able to download an entire discussion as well, in various formats and arrangements, fo...

     Eric and Ofelia, I appreciate your suggestions. There are other ways, too, such as selecting, copying, and pasting the entire discussion, although there are a number of formatting problems that n...

That's right – Blackboard has had multiple methods for organizing and downloading discussion posts for a decade or more. The wheel doesn't need reinvention. Some suggestions don't need voting on.

     I've been copying and pasting Canvas discussions to MS Word files for years. However, the resulting formatting is a mess, requiring a time-consuming cleanup routine. And the nice indentation we s...

The list of good reasons for this feature is long, as everyone has kindly pointed out (too kindly at this point, in my view). Yet Canvas techs offer neither comments nor action, as Brandon points out....

     Yes, Jocelyn, that's the question – how is this not a priority? And wouldn't it be nice if our students were able to download an entire discussion as well, in various formats and arrangements, fo...

     Eric and Ofelia, I appreciate your suggestions. There are other ways, too, such as selecting, copying, and pasting the entire discussion, although there are a number of formatting problems that n...

Thanks, Kerry! I share Erika's appreciation, as I just made those changes with Mac Automator and it works great, although there's rich irony in Canvas instructors needing a 12-step program! Unfortunat...

Thanks, Tillis, for pointing out these additional details of a fully functional word counter. Dividing this specific topic into separate requests, each of which requires voting, is avoiding the issue....