Group Discussion with Checkpoints is not working

[sbing]

We turned on the feature to allow checkpoints yesterday. We have faculty who you use group discussions to keep their clinical groups together for grading. When you go in to click "Assign graded checkpoints" the group set goes away. When I save and go out there is no group set for me to see for the discussion, as compared to those that are set up as group discussions and assign graded checkpoints is not selected.

I did see where someone else had posted about this and it was being reviewed by developers. The workaround was to create the discussion, select your group, save and then edit and select to assign graded checkpoints. However, when I try this the groups continue to go away. As in, when I un-check assign graded checkpoints, the group discussion button is not selected and my group is no longer listed.

This is a huge issue for our allied health faculty and I'm hoping someone knows the answer or where this is in being resolved. I tried to go to the original discussions checkpoints thread but it's now closed.

Any and all help would be appreciated.

[dgreene]

We are finding a similar problem. Any help would be appreciated. 

[mwolfenstein]

I'm having trouble finding the post, but groups don't work with checkpoints yet.

[SamGarza1 · Accepted solution]

Hi @sbing,

At this time, Discussion Checkpoints do not support groups, but we're tracking user interest in this area. 

[CanvasHelpdesk]

We also have this need! Several of our instructors use groups for larger classes and projects. It makes sense to have Checkpoints available for this option! Please see a recent email from a one of our faculty members: 

Hi! According to the Canvas guides, checkpoints are not currently supported with group discussions. I would like to request this feature, as we keep students from different programs in separate discussion groups. However, the ability to assign initial discussion posts and peer replies with different due dates is so helpful for student planning and scheduling purposes. The checkpoints feature also increases student participation in posting peer replies. This is especially helpful when peer replies are graded.

We have courses starting May 7 for which the ability to have graded checkpoints with group discussions would be immensely helpful.

Thank you for your consideration!

[bec_plumbe]

Please count this as a vote for checkpoints in grouped discussions. The fact that these two features don't work together immediately makes the checkpoint feature useless in large classes. I work in an Australian university, which like most unis here is large and has large classes, typically broken into smaller "tutorials" of 25-30. In my area, we use grouped discussions extensively so that students are actually having a discussion with their specific group, not just shouting into the void. And we would really love to be able to use checkpoints in our many graded discussions!

I'm sure there will be many others at Australian universities, and other unis that typically have large classes, who feel the same. 

[LNSiefert]

Please add myself and about 10 faculty member votes to getting the checkpoint grading to work in group discussions as well.  It is very frustrating to have a "new and improved" feature that is not functioning fully.  As the admin, I hesitate to enable new things for this reason.

[Seangt]

sorely needed before we can turn this feature on. 

[Johana3]

 i already fixed my laptop so i can have checkpoints, anyone that needs their computers to get checkpoints, visit my profile and you will see my instagram so that you can text me and i can tell you the process. Please follow me on instagram and in this website  please.

and by the way a like would really helpful.

[Johana3]

i will just go ahead and tell you guys the process, this will work for ALL laptops; first, you have to restart your computer just in case it has any updates because thats what it might be holding you from getting the abbilities of this website, then you go to settings and go to accessibility, you click on visual effects and turn on transparancy effecs, and last restart your computer again and i will work