Canvas killed my way of engaging students when they eliminated Sort by Likes, and I have started a campaign to bring it back. I typically have about 4,000 students a semester and with 1,000s of posts ...

Yes, the new discussions design is a disaster on so many levels. The collapsed threads means students will not read replies. The smaller font for replies instead on the old indented format for replies...

@hesspe  The key to sort by likes is that when I comment on a post and click like, my comments tend to stay on the front page and students see that I am in there participating with them. Without s...

Our Canvas support team built a tool that maps the interactions between students in Canvas discussions. Using that tool I've posted two images below from a class I teach that has about 1,000 stude...

Sort by Likes "removed due to low usage." This is probably low usage by faculty, but there are certainly other faculty like me that relied on it 100% in VERY LARGE CLASSES. I might be one user...

@hesspe  The key to sort by likes is that when I comment on a post and click like, my comments tend to stay on the front page and students see that I am in there participating with them. Without s...

@hesspe, The two charts show the responses to a single question, both open for discussion for 4 days mid-semester and after both discussions closed. There are more responses in the one that was or...

Our Canvas support team built a tool that maps the interactions between students in Canvas discussions. Using that tool I've posted two images below from a class I teach that has about 1,000 stude...

"Likes" no longer do anything. "Sorting by Likes" is extremely valuable in large classes.

Sort by Likes is still (in my opinion) the most valuable feature that has been lost in the redesign. I understand that a button faculty can click to "pin" a post to stay on the first page of p...