May

course discussion updates mar 13, 2025 we’ve introduced several new features to improve visibility and workflow within course discussions collapsible discussion topics you can now collapse and expand discussion topics—just like course content—for a cleaner, more focused view of the discussion board student summary table a new student summary table is now available under courses / lms / discussion this table provides a quick overview of student participation this data is calculated automatically once per day, but can also be refreshed manually by recalculating course totals these updates aim to make course engagement more trackable and integrated into assessment workflows video walkthrough course discussion updates form approval updates may 5, 2025 resend approval requests to staff administrators can now resend a form approval email to the staff member assigned to the form navigate to the student profile / forms section, click the view form icon, and then select resend approval email at the bottom the staff member will receive a new email with a direct link to the form, allowing them to approve or refuse it without needing to log in separately staff can now refuse form approval staff assigned to a form can now choose to refuse the request rather than approve it after clicking the form link, they follow the same steps as an approval—signing and optionally adding notes—but select refuse instead of approve once a form is refused the status updates to approval refused and is displayed in red in the student profile the downloadable pdf version of the form will also be stamped with refused any notes added by the staff member are stored as part of the form record video walkthrough form approval updates here’s a quick walkthrough of the new form approval updates, including how to resend an approval request and how staff can refuse approval