In discussion replies, a blue dot indicates the reply is new and unread. A white dot indicates a reply is read. When you navigate away from the discussion or refresh the page, the blue dots automatically change to white dots, indicating the replies are read.
You can tell Canvas not to automatically mark your discussion replies as read so that you can manually control which replies you haven't viewed. Your selection for this option applies to the Discussions settings for all of your courses. By default, manually marking posts as read is turned off.
You can manually mark discussion replies as read or unread at any time.
Open Discussions
In Course Navigation, click the Discussions link.
Open Settings
Click the Settings icon.
Manually Mark Replies as Read
Click the Manually mark replies as read checkbox.
Note: Selecting this option will require you to manually mark replies as read for all of your courses.
Save Settings
Click the Save Settings button.
