There are no Blogs, Wikis, or Journals but there are some alternatives. Discussions allow for interactive communication between two or more people; users can participate in a conversation with an entire class or group. Discussions can be created as an assignment for grading purposes (and seamlessly integrated with the Canvas Gradebook), or simply serve as a forum for topical and current events. Discussions can also be created within student groups.
Important
- There are no Wikis, Blogs, or Journals in Canvas.
- Discussions can be graded or ungraded.
- If a student attaches a file to an ungraded discussion, the file size counts toward the student’s storage quotas. However, attachments added to graded discussions do not count toward the student’s storage quotas.
- If you want to create a graded discussion and you have added sections in the Post To field, the Graded option will be unavailable. You must remove the sections from the Post To field before selecting this option. You will be able to add sections as part of the graded discussion options.
- Review the updated Discussions Redesign in Canvas page (replaces the classic Discussions view).
How to use – Instructor Guides
00:09: Focused discussions are relatively short-lived interactions that tend to disappear
00:13: as the course progresses such as a weekly forum for questions related to that
00:17: week’s activities. Use a focused discussion for single posts
00:21: and related comments. One discussion leader typically posts a
00:25: message and multiple Learners comment on it. Participants may leave a
00:30: side comment to reply, but cannot develop the conversation Beyond two
00:34: layers of nesting. Focused discussions might also be used to answer
00:38: a single question share resources amongst peers collect
00:43: results from a simple research, activity share solutions to a
00:47: single problem. Correct misconceptions, clarify course,
00:51: policies get feedback on a work in progress, share
00:55: insights about a single reading.
00:58: Fred had discussions include infinite layers of response, nesting allowing
01:02: commenters to continue responding on a single nested thread.
01:06: Threaded discussions, lend themselves to the refining of complex ideas, responses
01:11: and different lines of inquiry can be quickly navigated due to its hierarchical
01:15: structure. Threaded discussions, may be long-standing spaces for
01:19: thoughts that persist throughout an entire course.
01:22: Use a threaded discussion for multiple posts and related comments, one
01:26: or more discussion leaders post a message and multiple Learners comment on it with
01:30: the freedom to create any number of related discussion topics and common.
01:35: Threaded discussions might also be used to host, an answer multiple related
01:39: or unrelated questions. Organized results from a complex research
01:43: activity share and iterate upon ideas shared by each student in
01:47: the course debate, the pros and cons of a single issue or multiple
01:51: issues, ask multiple questions of a single discussion leader.
01:55: Refine ideas between multiple discussion leaders and multiple Learners,
01:59: facilitate group discussions around.
02:02: Multiple topics, facilitate discussions around a discussion Fishbowl
02:07: conversations, explore at length, the feasibility of different solutions
02:11: to a complex problem.
02:14: As an instructor within discussions, you can create edit
02:18: and delete discussion topics. You can also reply to edit
02:22: and delete individual student discussion posts create threaded
02:26: or focused discussions within your course. Create discussions with varied
02:31: due dates for different sections within your course.
02:33: Create a group discussion is an assignment.
02:35: Create a graded discussion for everyone individual students
02:40: course sections, or course groups When a discussion
02:44: is marked as a graded assignment, the canvas speedgrader isolates each
02:48: student’s comments from the thread and combines them into one easily readable view
02:52: for grading. Subscribe to a discussion and be notified of replies
02:56: enable podcast feeds within your discussions.
02:59: Embed or attach files images and YouTube videos.
03:03: Add course, content directly from your course delay, discussion
03:07: posts until a defined date, pin discussion threads, that you want your
03:11: students to see at the top of the discussions page.
03:15: As a student within discussions, you can create edit
03:19: and delete discussion topics reply to individual student replies.
03:23: Unless your instructor has disallowed threaded replies, subscribe
03:28: to a discussion and be notified of replies.
03:31: Subscribe to podcast feeds within discussions embed or attach
03:35: files images and YouTube videos.
03:39: As an observer within discussions, you can view your students course
03:43: discussions, subscribe to a discussion and be notified of replies.
Best Practices and Accessibility
- Wherever drag and drop is used to reorder components, the Move-to option is also available and allows both screen readers and keyboard users to move Canvas content. The Move-to option is available in Discussions.
- The Rich Content Editor supports multiple accessibility features for easy creation of accessible content.
