Section Filtering

Admins can configure discussion activities to restrict students to viewing replies only within their enrolled section or to allow them to view replies across all sections in a course

Admins can configure discussion activities to restrict students to viewing replies only within their enrolled section or to allow them to view replies across all sections in a course. This setting is subject to Canvas course restrictions and requires that students are also restricted from seeing all sections in Canvas.

You can change this setting during course enrollment or for individual students by navigating to the Canvas User Details settings and changing the Membership - Privileges for the course to "this user can only view students in their assigned course section(s)".

Instructor and TA Access

• Instructors, TAs, and other roles are limited to their assigned sections and will only see replies from students in those sections.
• Instructors with access to multiple sections will default to viewing replies from the first section in the course selector but can switch between sections as needed.

Configuration for Section Filtering

To enable section filtering, the following Canvas section custom parameters must be added to the LTI tool settings:

For LTI 1.1:

1. Edit the installed tool.
2. Add the following parameters to the custom fields:

   canvas_section_ids=$Canvas.course.sectionIds
   
   canvas_section_restricted=$Canvas.course.sectionRestricted

For LTI 1.3:

1. Edit the Developer Key.
2. Navigate to Additional Settings > Custom Fields.
3. Add the same fields as above.