Canvas LMS Basics Guide

What are IgniteAI Summaries for Discussions?

Discussion Summaries use a Generative AI model to provide summaries of the main points, questions, and ideas in a discussion thread. These summaries are only available to instructors and administrators.

Admins can enable the Discussion Summary feature preview at the account level. If the feature is enabled and locked, Discussion Summary is enabled in all courses in the account. If enabled and unlocked, instructors can manage the feature preview at the course level.

If you are an instructor and your user interface displays differently, the feature has not been enabled at your institution. To learn more about the feature preview, ask questions, or comment on functionality, navigate to the Discussion Summaries user group.

To learn more about feature options, refer to the Canvas Feature Option Summary resource document.

00:07: What are Discussion Summaries?

00:09: When the Discussion Summary feature option is enabled, the Open Summary button

00:13: displays in the discussion topic. As an instructor, you

00:17: can use Discussion Summary to generate a summary of the main points, questions,

00:22: and ideas in a discussion.

00:25: You can specify which topics to focus on. You can also generate a

00:29: summary of the main points, questions, and ideas in the discussion.

00:34: To rate the summary, you can click either the Like or Dislike button.

00:39: This guide covered Discussion Summaries.

Open Discussion Summary

When the Discussion Summary feature option is enabled, the Open Summary button displays in the discussion topic.

As an instructor, you can use Discussion Summary to generate a summary of the main points, questions, and ideas in a discussion.

View Discussion Summary

You can specify which topics to focus on [1]. You can also generate a summary of the main points, questions, and ideas in the discussion [2]. To rate the summary, you can click either the Like or Dislike button [3].

Canvas LMS Basics Guide

Still have a question about this topic? Ask the Community!

Ask a Question