Let's say I want to refer someone to a post that already exists, either in the same discussion or another discussion. Is there a way to do that using the tools? If not, is there a way to find the URL for a given discussion post?
richardhaggarty Welcome to the Canvas Community!
You can capture a link to a specific discussion reply by following these steps:
1. Search for the desired post in the discussion forum.
2. The filtered posts will have a "View in Discussion" link at the bottom which includes a permalink to that particular post.
3. Right-click and save the link from the "View in Discussion" link, or click on "View in Discussion" and copy the URL from the address bar.
4. Paste that saved link in your reply to the student.
And, further to the helpful advice from @kona and Deactivated user, I'll add that if you're looking for a link to a specific post in the Canvas Community (Jive platform), you can click on the date and time of the post; that will yield a URL that goes directly to that post, and you can copy and paste the link from the address bar of your browser. Or, you can right-click on the date and time and select Copy Link Address from the dropdown.
The only method I have been able to find (that still works in 2023), is to have your notifications turned on for 'new reply' and use the link that you receive.
It will have a format like this:
https://institution.instructure.com/courses/77777/discussion_topics/888888?entry_id=9999999#entry-9999999
The blue part of the URL is easy to find if you just need to link to a specific discussion.
But the red text string contains the query parameters for the individual post (the id number) that is required to link directly to a particular comment within the discussion. I don't know of any other way of finding this (any more) other than these notification links.
To complicate this strategy, you don't get notified about your own posts, so if you want to link to something you said yourself, you will need an ally in the discussion who also has notifications turned on and is willing to forward the ID number to you!
I really hope I'm missing something here and someone can tell me the easier way!
richardhaggarty, there might be a way on the back-end of Canvas to figure out which discussion post/reply is which, but on the front end the most you can do is direct someone to the main discussion, there isn't a way to specify a specific post within the discussion.
Hi there, richardhaggarty,
Just to clarify, are you referring to in the LMS specifically? Or in Jive? If you're referring to inside of Canvas, you may run into some permission issues if the course isn't public (I.E, they will get an error saying they aren't allowed to view the content). If you're referring to Jive, you most definitely can. Either by copying the URL link and pasting, which will generally auto populate the discussion name or by using this guide: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-1317-how-do-i-mention-people-places-content
Feel free to clarify and hopefully we can hone in on a better answer for you.
As 9/24/2024, we still have no ability to link to the individual posts in the Canvas Discussions. The older methods (including Chrome's Inspect) do not work in the redesigned Discussion. I could not find any ID that I could reference in the HTML code of the Discussion page. If you right click on any web page in Chrome and select "View page source", the complete and searchable HTML/CSS/scripting code is displayed. I searched for "entry", found 7 unrelated entries on Discussion page with 18 posts/replies.
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