{"id":624,"date":"2025-03-05T20:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/?p=624"},"modified":"2025-03-05T20:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:19:45","slug":"canvas-updates-discussions-feature-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/2025\/03\/05\/canvas-updates-discussions-feature-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas Updates: Discussions Feature Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instructors will now be able to configure the default view settings, when creating or editing a discussion. This includes thread collapse\/expansion and sorting options for students, with the ability to lock these preferences if needed. This feature allows instructors to structure discussions in a way that aligns with their teaching approach, guiding student engagement and interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/t5\/Canvas-Releases\/Canvas-Release-Notes-2025-03-15\/ta-p\/634458#toc-hId--1059075400\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/t5\/Canvas-Releases\/Canvas-Release-Notes-2025-03-15\/ta-p\/634458#toc-hId--1059075400\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Canvas Release Notes<\/a>\u00a0to learn more!<\/p>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2025\/03\/3-15-25-discusison-updates.png\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2025\/03\/3-15-25-discusison-updates.png.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Canvas discussion updates graphic\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column two-thirds\">\n<p>Instructors can configure the default discussion view by setting the default thread state [1] and optionally locking it for students [2].<\/p>\n<p>They can also define the default sort order [3] and choose to lock it [4] if needed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The March 15th Canvas Release includes Discussion enhancements!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canvas-updates","category-ed-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}