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Discussions

Discussions allows you and your students and teaching assistants to engage in online discussions. Discussions is divided into different topic areas which allow you to create discussion forums around particular subjects. Topics can be public or private. Everyone in your course can access public topics, while private topics are available only to the set of students and teaching assistants that you choose.

By default, Discussions contains three public topics:

  • Main: the main discussion area
  • Notes: contains messages related to a page of content in a content module
  • All: contains all messages from all public topics

With Discussions, you can:

To add the Discussions tool to your course:

  1. From the Control Panel, select Add Page or Tool.
  2. In the Communication Tools column, click Discussions. The Add Discussions screen appears.
  3. In the Enter a title for this item text box, enter the title as you want it to appear below the icon.
  4. Under Decide where to show the link to this item, select where you want the link to be displayed.
  5. Click Add. The Discussions tool is added to your course.
 
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Last Updated: December 6, 2004
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