Learner topics

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

How do I participate in discussions?

• Accessing Discussions
• Finding and reading discussion posts and threads
• Creating and replying to discussion threads
• Saving a draft discussion thread
• Rating discussion posts
• Printing discussion threads and posts
• Changing Discussions settings

How do I follow discussions?

• Flagging a discussion post
• Marking discussion threads and posts as read or unread
• Managing discussion subscriptions
• Subscribing and unsubscribing to discussion forums, topics, and threads

Instructor topics

Use the Discussions tool in your course to encourage users to share thoughts on course material with their peers. You can set up forums and topics for users to ask questions, discuss course content and assignments, and work together in assigned groups and sections.

How do I create and manage discussions?

• Creating discussion forums and topics
• Discussion forum and topic restrictions
• Topic assessment
• Topic objectives
• Editing a discussion forum or topic
• Copying a discussion forum, topic, thread, or post
• Deleting discussion forums, topics, threads, and posts
• Reordering discussion forums and topics
• Restoring a deleted discussion forum, topic, thread, or post

How do I monitor discussions?

• Adding post approval to a discussion forum or topic
• Approving and unapproving discussion threads and posts
• Editing other users' discussion posts
• Viewing discussion statistics
• Exporting discussion statistics
• Viewing a discussion post's history