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Problem statement: With ChatGPT and other AI tools being available to students easily, we need a way to track what students are doing in discussions, in the same manner that we can see what they are d...

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Problem statement: It would be meaningful to have the ability to rearrange "regular" discussion board assignments in some sort of logical order chosen by the instructor. The display will be more logic...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When you create groups automatically by section in a crosslisted course, it will create groups and name them sequentially (e.g., Discussion Board Group 1, Discussion Board Group 2, ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Many of our faculty have inquired about additional statistics for the Discussion Boards they would find helpful in teaching their courses, including statistics based on an individua...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It is time consuming for faculty to figure out whether a student has met discussion participation requirements (many faculty require a certain minimum number of posts). Currently, t...

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Problem statement: I have manually created discussion groups on my course in Canvas where the students have to discuss through posts. In two of the groups active participants became only 2 students, s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I use complete/incomplete to grade my discussions. If a student hasn't met the criteria for marking the discussion as complete, I mark it as "incomplete." However, additional postin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Discussions typically require multiple posts by students before they are ready for grading. Any student who has posted in the discussion shows up in Speedgrader as having something ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Discussion posts are visible immediately, and there is no option (or extension or plug-in that I have found) to be able to schedule these. Working across different timezones can mea...

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Problem statement: As a Canvas admin at my institution, I often create content for teachers when building their course. As an admin who does not have a teacher role in the course, I do not want my nam...

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