The redesigned discussions are causing all sorts of unhappiness. We want them to default to expanded threads and an "oldest first" sort. Is there a setting to make this happen?
Just to make sure this thread has the most accurate information, these options were added in the March 15, 2025 Canvas release, details at Canvas Release Notes (2025-03-15) - Instructure Community - 634458.
-Chris
I second the part about expanding threads by default - I've had several faculty already requesting this, and we're less than a week into the term. I'll also add that the threaded replies need either a more significant indentation to them or some type of background color difference (light grey, like in Excel's tables).
Please let us choose the defaults per course. Having posts hidden by default does not work for the majority of our faculty
I have the same problem! I want to be able to have the discussion default to expanded threads. My TAs and I work hard to reply to as many student comments as possible, and we want ALL of the students to see ALL of our replies. That is the main point of a discussion board! If the students have to click in order to see our replies, it's not really a discussion. PLEASE change it back!
According to the documentation, it appears the default needs to be set for each individual forum. I thought Susan's posting was asking for a way to change the default forum settings at the course level. Susan references RL Brown's message, which clearly specifies a need to set the defaults at the course level. Am I missing something? Is there a way to do that? This feature would save a lot of time spent manually updating individual forums to return them to the view that our instructors are accustomed to.
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I'm not aware of a universal setting that would configure all discussion topics in a course to automagically expand. It does appear that, as you've indicated, this is on a topic-by-topic basis. But, maybe as a work-around, this might be a temporary solution for you. Create a sort of "template" discussion topic in a Canvas course. Include any settings in this topic that you'd like to essentially make as "default", including the "Default Thread State" set to "Expanded". Then, when you create any new discussion topics in your course, you make a copy (use the "Duplicate" function) of the template topic instead of creating a brand new topic. This should keep all your settings from the template topic in your new topic.
Would this work for your needs? Hope it helps in some way!
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