Overview

Discussions/Announcements Redesign is a feature option in ELMS-Canvas that displays an updated design with minor usability enhancements. Instructure (creators of Canvas) plans to turn on this feature on July 20, 2024, and remove the ability to use the legacy version.

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Discussions/Announcements Redesign

The Canvas Discussions Redesign offers

• Cleaner user interface for accessibility
• Flexible viewing options, including inline and split view
• Role labels (Author and Teacher labels)
• Reply reporting with notifications to instructors
• Quoting functionality
• Improved search with highlighting
• Full and partial anonymous graded Discussions
• Additional sorting and filtering options for users

To learn more about the differences between legacy discussions and discussions redesign, review the Discussions Redesign from Instructure page.

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The Canvas Announcements Redesign offers

• Cleaner user interface for accessibility 
• A new announcement toolbar
• Role labels (Author and Teacher labels)
• Flexible viewing options
• View threaded replies

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Resources

• Discussion Redesign Instructor Guides
• Announcements Redesign Instructor Guides
• Known Issues in Discussion/Announcement Redesign - To track the status of known issues in Discussion/Announcement redesign see Canvas | Known Issues page. This page has been filtered to show known issues of all Canvas Discussions and Announcements and their statuses. For other feature gaps and issues, there are links corresponding to feature requests on the Canvas Community site.

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