MY individual sections can see other sections posts to discussions. how do I restrict student access to just their own course section? Thanks
MY individual sections can see other sections posts to discussions. how do I restrict student access to just their own course section? Thanks
Thanks. I'm doing that but it they can still see each others (other sections).
Whenever I save the settings and then reopen, there is an "Assigned to" added that is "Everyone else". I delete this one and save but when I open it again "Everyone else" reappears. Is there some setting somewhere I'm missing? Is this glitch? Some sort of admin setting?
Sorry, Sterling....stepped away from things and didn't realize this was happening to you still. COURTNEY WAGNER is absolutely correct. My apologies; I manually created sections from a pre-existing sample class, but indeed I found with additional testing on my test server just now that the method of cross-listing used by our student information system does indeed lead to what Courtney is describing. ARRGH. Interestingly, however, this seems to contradict what is found in the top of this lesson: How do I assign a graded discussion to a course section? where it indeed says: Only the section(s) specified in the discussion details can view the graded discussion. The fact you can't dump the "Everyone else" box seems to indicate that's not possible.
OK; second option, though a more unpleasant one. Create student groups based on the sections. Yes, this is cumbersome and perhaps time-consuming depending on your enrollment and will have to be done manually. As you may know, GROUP DISCUSSIONS are (really....this one I know!) private just to those in the groups. In fact, a downside is if you ever wanted to share group discussions with the rest of the class, you can't. I'm not sure if you've used groups before, but here are a few guides:
And finally, How do I create a group discussion in a course? In this scenario, assuming you create the same discussion prompt for everyone in the class, you make it a GROUP discussion, assign it to the group set that you just created, and then each student group's discussions will remain private to that group. And, since you created those student groups to match the sections, that will isolate it to each section.
I apologize for the confusion on this, Sterling.
Didn't there use to be a course setting something like- restrict sections to only see their section in discussions. What happened to that?
There is, but checking the documentation on it (How do I limit a user to only interact with other users in the same course section? ) they note that it does not apply to discussions! (Which I agree seems a bit odd, though it may also explain why dumping the "Everyone Else" does not seem to work, though it still seems counter to the other documentation referenced above.)
Do you think the fact that I can't delete "Everyone else" could be a SIS (Powerschool) issue?
Somewhat, since I have the same issue, although we are on Jenzabar here for our SIS and not Powerschool. It may be related to any SIS integration and the way sections get folded into "parent" course sites, but I'm sorry that I do not know that for certain.
It may be time to file a Support case with Canvas to see if this entire scenario is by design in the system or a fluke. But again, it's very odd that this works just fine with regular Assignments; just not Discussions.
I feel there used to be a course setting that allowed the instructor restrict or allow sections to see other sections discussion? Where did that go?
Come on you power users, solve my problem for me:) I'm stuck.
I may be wrong...but I thought you had to create separate discussion boards, at the moment if you did not want sections to see each other's responses.
I was told a change was coming to that soon, so I don't know if it's taken effect yet.
Were you able to find an answer to your question? I am going to go ahead and mark this question as answered because there hasn't been any more activity in a while so I assume that you have the information that you need. If you still have a question about this or if you have information that you would like to share with the community, by all means, please do come back and leave a comment. Also, if this question has been answered by one of the previous replies, please feel free to mark that answer as correct.
Robbie
Hi Sterling Worrell - You can do this with graded discussions by following the instructions in this lesson: How do I assign a graded discussion to a course section? I just tested this to be sure on a sample class, and similar to other assignments that are assigned to just one section and not others, students from the other section can NOT see the discussion, nor is the grade counted against them in any way.
If you don't want to grade the discussion, I guess you can always still make it graded but worth 0 points to get around it.
I hope this helps!