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Viewing discussion thread by date?

I'm wondering if there's a way to view the items posted in a discussion forum by date rather than alphabetically by name of student, as it displays now.  It's a graded discussion and I'd like to...

Using Canvas to have students claim a (unique) topic

I'd like to provide a list of items (topics for a short paper, in my case) and have students claim one once they decide what to write about, but I want the choice to be exclusive so that there are no...

Can graded assignments also be public?

I'd like to create an assignment that will be graded, but I also want the content of student postings (but not the grade) to be visible to other students.  Is that possible?  If not, what's...

Is there a way to format comments in speed grader?

I'd like to create bullet paragraphs (or bold or italicize or tab, etc.) when adding a comment on an assignment in SpeedGrader.  I don't see any menu of formatting options and wonder whether any...

When do annotations in Speed Grader appear for the students?

When I comment on a submission in Speed Grader (annotating the submission), do those comments appear for the student immediately, or does that happen only when I "submit" the overall Assignment Comme...