Discussions

Overview

• Discussions are chat forums that can flexibly be used (and reused!) in courses, activities, or in standalone user groups.
• Users can comment in to answer questions or to reach out to peers, members, course instructors, and more
• Similar look, feel, and user experience to Facebook discussions
• These make learning more collaborative!

If you want to know about Creating a User Group or Understanding the Community/ Messaging Section, please click the links

What is Covered?

• Locating the Discussions List Page
• Navigating the Discussions List Page
• How to create a Discussion
• Link Attachments Users and Course
• Useful Links

Video Walkthrough

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Locate the Discussions Page

Go to Menu---> Community/ Messaging--->Discussions

Navigating the Discussions List page

1. Subject- Topic or Name of the Discussion
2. Comments- Number of comments
3. Links- How many courses the discussion is linked to
4. View- Takes you to the discussion board
5. Created- When it was created
6. Updated- when it was last updated
7. ID- the specific creation ID
8. Owner- who created it

How to create a discussion

• Press the ADD NEW button in the top right-hand corner of the Discussions page
• Select From Editor
• Enter Fields
  • Subject/ Discussion name
  • Users can add attachment files
  • Description- Write a question or expand on discussion subject, give prompt, and so on
• SAVE

How to link Attachments, Users, and Courses

In the Attachments, User Assosc Links, and Links (courses) section you will see a page that resembles the one above

To link a document (that has already been uploaded), a User, or a course just press the plus button on the right-hand side of the page.

Use discussions to help your students get the most out of their learning experience!