Subject lines in discussion posts help students scan the posts and find the ones that most interest them. Although Canvas doesn’t have a built-in way to do this, it’s easy to do it manually. Include the subject line as the first line of your discussion post and add bold type, then add two returns before you start the body of your discussion post.
The subject line should be descriptive. For example:
SUBJECT: Muraski Comments: My experience with ERP Software at Shoe.com
SUBJECT: Topic 2, delivering bad-news about vacation time
See below for an image that shows how this might look in Canvas.
I received my B.A. in English with a minor in Journalism from Wake Forest University and an M.A. in Religious Studies from Indiana University Bloomington. I see the role of an instructional designer as one that removes barriers to learning online content. Those barriers might be ones of accessibility, clarity, motivation, or something else that we discover as the online education continues to be refined. My job is to collaborate with instructors to make their content shine.
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