I had something interesting happen today that I have never seen happen before. My online course just started today, and I had a student create a new discussion topic to introduce themselves, but the Discussion page is disabled from view in Course Navigation. I think what the student did is modify the URL in the browser to access the discussion topics page by doing the following.

From a welcome announcement with this type of URL: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/123456/discussion_topics/123546

the student deleted the discussion topic id and went directly to the discussion topics page: 

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/123456/discussion_topics

Then, they were able to create a new discussion because the checkbox "Let students create new discussion topics" was on, but this shouldn't be an issue if the Discussion page is disabled. 

I verified this with Student View and was able to reproduce the behavior I am describing. I then checked to see if I would be able to access the Assignments or Quizzes page (which are also disabled) and got the behavior I was expecting with the "This page is disabled for this course" message on the screen. 

This is not related to the Discussions/Announcements Redesign. I tested this in two courses where one had the feature flag enabled and one without. Still got the some behavior.

Has anyone else run into this or know if this is something that is being worked on? 

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Erik