About Discussions

The Discussions tool is a collaboration area where you can post, read and reply to messages on different topics, share thoughts about course materials, ask questions, share files, or work with your peers on assignments and homework.

Use the Discussions tool in your course to:

• encourage users to share thoughts on course material with their peers
• set up forums for users to ask questions
• pose a question for the class to debate
• discuss the answers to an assignment
• create forums for groups to work on group assignments

Access the Discussions tool

Click the Discussions link on your course navigation bar.

Discussions help topics

Learning

• Finding and reading messages
• Posting and replying to messages
• Discussion settings

Teaching

• Creating discussion forums and topics
• Managing forums, topics and messages
• Moderating discussions and approving messages
• Assessing (evaluating) a discussion topic
• Viewing and exporting discussion statistics