I have a discussion board in a class with students have to post an initial post but reply to two others. I want the due date on the initial post and then a subjective due date (in text box) on the replies. So if students post their initial response but reply to others after the due date it still marks them as late. Is there a work around/fix?
Julie, there is no straight-forward way to do this in Canvas. Yet, what I've seen some people do is create a reminder assignment or just a reminder in the Calendar for the first due date and then make the final due date the one associated with the actual discussion. For me, I tried this for a couple of semesters and it was messy so I just ended up doing the final due date on my discussion and including on the discussion and in my syllabus (and multiple reminders in class/email) that initial posts are due on Thursday's and final posts are due by Sunday. In all honesty doing this hasn't really changed the number of students who submitted on time or late, so I'll probably continue not adding the reminders in the future.
There is a feature idea for this - Multiple Due Dates (checkpoints) for Discussions - that got the following reply from Canvas, " In 2016, we'll be researching and prioritizing improvements to our Discussions tool, and this will be one of the items we continue to investigate. Since it won't happen within the next six months, I'm going to archive it. Please see other comments in the thread for existing (though potentially suboptimal) workarounds." - So, on the high side it at least might be coming!
I notice that adding multiple due dates still has not been added in Canvas yet. Lots of people need the feature.
Julie, there is no straight-forward way to do this in Canvas. Yet, what I've seen some people do is create a reminder assignment or just a reminder in the Calendar for the first due date and then make the final due date the one associated with the actual discussion. For me, I tried this for a couple of semesters and it was messy so I just ended up doing the final due date on my discussion and including on the discussion and in my syllabus (and multiple reminders in class/email) that initial posts are due on Thursday's and final posts are due by Sunday. In all honesty doing this hasn't really changed the number of students who submitted on time or late, so I'll probably continue not adding the reminders in the future.
There is a feature idea for this - Multiple Due Dates (checkpoints) for Discussions - that got the following reply from Canvas, " In 2016, we'll be researching and prioritizing improvements to our Discussions tool, and this will be one of the items we continue to investigate. Since it won't happen within the next six months, I'm going to archive it. Please see other comments in the thread for existing (though potentially suboptimal) workarounds." - So, on the high side it at least might be coming!