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17 October 2024

Canvas Learning & Teaching Skills Articles Teaching Technology

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Discussion Summaries 

Discussion Summary is a new feature preview available in Canvas. Discussion Summarisation uses a Generative AI model to give lecturers summaries of the main points, questions, and ideas in a discussion thread. 

  1. To summarise discussion threads, click the Summarise button. 
  1. To Generate a summary, click the Generate Summary button.  
  2. To exit the Discussion Summary, click the Disable Summary button.     
  1. Enter the area or topics you want the summary to focus on
  1. A summary is created based on the topics the instructor asked about. 

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