Unread posts in the discussion are marked with a blue circle. Once a post is marked as read it will turn to a white circle.

By default, as you read new discussion posts, Canvas will mark them as read (changing the indicators from blue to white) as you scroll down the page. I would recommend manually marking each post as read rather than relaying on this automatic method, as posts are marked as read even if you scroll down the discussion quickly . You can tell Canvas not to automatically mark all your posts as read in your Discussion settings.

Once you have marked your post as read in the discussion you can filter a forum so that it just displays posts you have yet to read by clicking the Unread button.

Click the button again to remove the filter.

The number of unread posts are also highlighted in blue next to the each discussion in the discussion menu.

Manually marking all post as read each time you read through the discussion will help to highlight here when there are new unseen posts on a discussion

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