Discussions
Updated 17 Aug 2021
You can set up discussions so that your students can share ideas with you and each other. Discussions are convenient for students because they can participate at a time that works best for them. Most courses come with a Discussions or Discussion Board menu item where you add your discussion topics and posts. Instructors can add their own discussions, as well. You can add your own discussion items anywhere within the course menu. Use the course-level Discussions Settings to control how students interact with discussion topics, including whether students can view or edit responses throughout your course.
Within a discussion, you set up individual topics for your students to respond to. Within each discussion topic, your students reply to each other's responses. When you add discussion topics and posts, you use the same content editor you use to develop your content pages. Your students use this same editor to craft their discussion posts. The embed media tool allows you to insert images and video from the web within your discussions.
Copies of your course or another instructor’s course keep the same Discussions Settings and discussion topics as the original course, but all responses are deleted in the course copy.
For more information, see:
View discussion topics and responses
Hide discussion responses until a student posts (Post first)