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Brief Description

Implications or Concerns

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Synoptic tool

Assumes both Messages and Forums are being used, so that Messages values are displayed even if the tool isn't deployed.

 

UI changes

Presumably reduces training burden, but will force changes in user documentation

 

Mark messages read after "display all" is viewed

When you "display all" messages they aren't marked as read. This behavior has been confusing at a number of schools, it is non-standard discussion board behavior, but there is not a consensus that it is a problem.

Property "Display all" marks messages as read by default, so that the default behavior matches user expectations, but there is a property to optionally turn this off

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