lrdavis

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Right now, a pink box shows quotations, with a portion hidden e.g. Click to expand

Two issues surface.

After an instructor has posted a lesson (including the quotation in pink), a classmate reading the post requires additional clicking to read the whole post. There is no way to leave the 'quotation' as a full post. Instructors don't know that using the 'quote' feature, creates an additional effort on the classmate's part.

Why is this important? It doesn't show up fully in the emails. We have to access the site to read it. Once in the thread, it requires additional work to expand it.

I can understand why 'click to expand' works when someone has quoted the thread post several posts above, and most likely everyone has already read the full post, but it is different when the quotation is brand new and never seen before. Interrupting the reading of the posts to have to click to expand is an inconvenience for the participant.

In addition, moderators wishing to copy and paste are forced to copy the quotation separately. It will not copy the quotation in the full post without requiring a separate click, copy and paste (which requires finding the spot to add the additional quotation not included in the first copy and paste).

Solution: Is there a way to make quotations be included in their entirety and not diminished, when there is need to see the whole post as a single unit? Can this be made as a selection of the poster/instructor/moderator?

Thanks,
Lyn
 
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