Discussions Redesign is TERRIBLE!

[eking1]

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE bring back the old Discussion format.  I really HATE how you can't see replies without clicking on each individual post.  Now students won't quickly see my contributions because I KNOW they aren't going to open every student's replies. This format is unnecessarily hard to navigate. Can we please not "improve" things that are working?  Thank you!

[PaulNagami]

Does your version have an Expand Threads button at the top? When I tested, clicking that button "unrolled" the replies and let me see them all. It shows up for me in Student View:

It might be worthwhile to instruct students to click that button to see all the replies! On the other hand, there's no way to guarantee they will click it.

(What would be ideal would be if Canvas had a setting somewhere to set the default view in discussions to either "Expanded Threads" or "Collapsed Threads!" In discussions with relatively long, isolated threads between a pair of conversation partners, having all threads collapsed by default is better. In discussions with more interaction across many threads and instructor feedback that all students should see, expanding by default is better. But I am not aware of any setting like this, and I just checked for it!)

[gregtew]

100% agree, for large classes ( I have 3,000 in one class) Sort by Likes was an ESSENTIAL feature!!!!!! At least let me PIN my posts to the first page of posts. I do 2 discussions a week and the one that just closed had 107 pages of posts and my posts were lost in that massive haystack. More specifically, I would comment within a students post by using the edit post tool behind the 3 stacked dots. Once in the student's post, I would highlight key ideas, and below their post I would add my comments in blue. That way may comments were directly connected to the posts I want students to read and consider.