Canvas Studio Discussions

[CynthiaEdwards1]

Our institution started using Canvas Studio recently. I am exploring creating a Canvas Studio Discussion and have a question: When using Canvas Studio for a discussion, to reply to question prompts within the Canvas Studio video on an ungraded assignment, the student can click reply within the Studio (which is number 1 on attached image). However, for a graded assignment, the student must click the Discussion board green Reply button (2). Otherwise the comments will not show under each student in Speedgrader. Is this correct? Any input is appreciated! 

[Chris_Hofer]

@CynthiaEdwards1 ...

Maybe to avoid a *little* bit of confusion for your students, if you are setting up an ungraded discussion using Studio, you could just embed that video into a normal Canvas page instead of a Discussion topic?  That way, since it's not graded, the interface is absolutely clear for students that the Reply button (#1 in your screenshot) is the only way they can reply to the Studio video.  All of the conversation will be contained in that interface.

For the graded discussion...I realize this might not be the most ideal setup, but instead of using a discussion topic, what if you used a regular Canvas assignment and then embedded your Studio video in the assignment directions?  You could still set up the assignment with whatever settings you wanted.  Essentially, what I'm suggesting here as an option is a way to get rid of the confusion of two different "Reply" buttons.  In this scenario, the second reply button would be gone here, too.  All discussion would happen in the Studio interface.  The drawback here, though, at least from what I've seen in my testing, is that the embedded video doesn't show up in the SpeedGrader, nor do the comments from your students.  So, you'd have to go to the assignment page where the Studio video was embedded to view those comments...then go to your SpeedGrader (or the Gradebook) to give students a score for that assignment.  Again, maybe not the most ideal, but I thought I'd throw this out as a possible work-around.

Hope this helps in some way.

[CynthiaEdwards1]

Chris,

Thanks for the input. I will keep these in mind as we continue to use Canvas Studio!