{"id":10776,"date":"2024-08-30T16:27:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T23:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/?p=10776"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:04:15","slug":"canvas-discussions-disallow-threaded-replies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/canvas-discussions-disallow-threaded-replies\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas Discussions &#8211; Disallow Threaded Replies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Canvas has recently updated Discussions to include an option to disallow threaded replies. When enabled, students will not be able to reply to other students&#8217; posts within a discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This update may have affected some existing discussions due to differences in how new and legacy discussions are managed. As a result, Canvas may have automatically enabled the &#8220;Disallow Threaded Replies&#8221; setting to preexisting discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As this time, we recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/t5\/Instructor-Guide\/How-do-I-edit-or-delete-a-discussion-in-a-course\/ta-p\/1075#open_discussion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">checking the discussion settings<\/a> in your active courses and master course shells to verify that the &#8220;Disallow Threaded Replies&#8221; option is not enabled for discussions where students need to reply to each other&#8217;s posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Below are screenshots illustrating how a discussion appears with threaded replies both disabled and enabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disallow Threaded Replies (Disabled)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-32-1024x529.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-32-1024x529.png 1024w, https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-32-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-32-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-32.png 1470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disallow Threaded Replies (Enabled)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-31-1024x529.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-31-1024x529.png 1024w, https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-31-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-31-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-31.png 1470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canvas has recently updated Discussions to include an option to disallow threaded replies. When enabled, students will not be able to reply to other students&#8217; posts within a discussion. This update may have affected some existing discussions due to differences in how new and legacy discussions are managed. As a result, Canvas may have automatically&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":725,"footnotes":""},"categories":[512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10776"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12058,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions\/12058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/at.csudh.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}