[OPEN] Group discussions do not allow students to tag the teacher
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Engineers are currently investigating the issue.
Description
Students that are part of a group discussion are not able to tag the teacher in their replies.
Expected Behavior
Students should be able to tag their teacher in discussion replies.
Workaround
No workaround exists at this time.
Steps to Reproduce
Prerequisites: Have published courses with a few students separated into groups and group sets
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As the teacher create a group discussion with the group set that you already split students into
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As a student navigate to the discussion and start a reply.
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Attempt tagging the teacher with the @ function.
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Observe that the teacher’s name does not pop up.
Additional Info
VICE-4941
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