How can I view a complete history of a student's posts in all course discussions?

If I access to the student card I can see the recent messages, but I would like to see all the messages, not only the recent.

Thank you

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Chris

Hi @lsorroche,

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to do that build in to Canvas. The only course-wide option I know of to see the recent posts, but that seems to max out at 10. If you're a strong coder, you could use the Canvas API to programmatically search through all discussions for posts by a user, but you'd just get back HTML instead of nice visual results.

When feature requests become available again, this might be a good one to suggest.

-Chris

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crafte

I am not sure if you will see all discussion posts. I have checked a course with 8 discussions and the posts were listed after I did the following:

Go to the People page and click on a student's name. The right panel opens with student details. Click on the student's name in the right panel. You will see the "Recent Messages" in the lower section of the page with a list of discussion comments from various discussions in the course.

Chris

Hi @lsorroche,

When feature requests become available again, this might be a good one to suggest.

-Chris

lsorroche

Thanks, Chris, for your answer. Definitely, it would be a good suggestion.

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