Since Canvas can't auto-grade a discussion board for completion, does anyone have a workaround?

It would be nice for Canvas to be able automatically record completion of a discussion (by recording if a students posts) instead of instructors to have to record responses manually. The graded survey was suggested as an option, but students can't see others' responses so there's no discussion. Anyone have a work around to that?

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kmeeusen

Hi @tmorgan2

I guess if it was a toggle on/off choice I wouldn't scream too much, but I am not a fan of just awarding a grade without any evaluation.

Kelley

kmeeusen

Hi again, @tmorgan2

Have you considered simply setting a default grade? https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-12834-415255002

Kelley

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This is mostly correct. The students get an automatic completion grade by taking a quiz that is only visible to students who have contributed to the discussion board activity. The module will unlock the follow-up survey/quiz once the student has added a contribution. Canvas has no built-in mechanism to ensure that the contribution actually meets the requirements that you have laid out for the activity. For example, if you want the student to make three replies, there is no way to set up the module to unlock the quiz/survey only after they make three replies. The quiz/survey will unlock after they make their first reply (and have thus met the requirements of having "contributed").

MaryGrassetti

I also wish that Canvas had this feature. My course is heavily discussion based and it is very time consuming to review each and every discussion. When I teach in person, I don't grade every discussion that students have but I can walk from group to group listening in on the various discussions. I'd like a way for the system to give the student a grade once they have responded to the prompt and replied to a peer. I would then do spot assessments to ensure students are meeting the requirements for discussions. This would make it much more manageable for a discussion based online course.

lyonscw

Regarding the default grade option, I think if you first manually grade the people who did not submit, you can then use the default grade to grade the rest. I typically have between 300 and 600 students and this works well for me.

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