Canvas discussion archive
How to save Canvas discussions, replies, and posts.
If you are graduating, changing accounts, or losing access to a Canvas course, the discussion board is often the part you most want to keep. It has classmates' replies, your own posts, course context, and conversations that ordinary file downloads do not preserve.
Short answer: use CanDownloader while the Canvas course still opens. It saves visible Canvas discussion threads, expanded replies, discussion posts, forums, and the surrounding page context into a personal offline course archive.
Why Canvas discussions are hard to keep
Students often search for "save Canvas discussion threads/posts", "Can I export Canvas discussion forums?", or "Does Canvas export include discussion boards?" because official export tools can miss the student-facing conversation view. A Canvas course export may be useful for moving course materials into another Canvas environment, but it is not the same as keeping the class discussion you actually saw.
What CanDownloader tries to preserve
- Canvas Discussion Board and Discussions pages visible to your student account.
- Discussion forums, threads, replies, and posts.
- Expanded replies when the page exposes them during the archive run.
- The page context around the discussion, so the archive is not just a text dump.
- A local report if a page is blocked, missing, or cannot be saved.
Important limit
CanDownloader is not a recovery tool. It cannot bring back a course after Canvas has already removed your access. Use it while you can still log in and open the discussion pages.
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Keep the class conversation before it disappears.
CanDownloader is for personal archives of your own Canvas courses and courses you can still access.