[Discussions] Sort Discussion Board Posts by Student

Problem statement:

When grading discussion board posts as assignments, and providing individual private feedback, I have to have the assignment and the Speedgrader open at the same time. Speedgrader is in student last name order and can't be sorted at all. The discussion board posts can only be in date order (A-Z/Z-A). These do not align with one another.

Proposed solution:

It would be much easier to grade discussion board posts if SpeedGrader and the DiscussionBoard could be both sorted the same way so that I would neither have to poke around Speedgrader for students when I'm reiewing discussionboard by date, nor would I have to poke around the Discussion Board if Speedgrader is leading alphabetically. This may most easily be solved by adding a sort feature for the discussion board to sort by student name (at least the top level of the student posts).

User role(s):

instructor