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About Discussions
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. Note: When copying and pasting formatted content from…
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Create discussion forums and topics
Encourage your learners to share thoughts on course material with peers by setting up forums and topics for learners to ask questions, discuss course content and assignments, and work together in assigned groups and sections. You must create a discussion forum first, which will contain associated discussion topics.…
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Restrict a forum or topic to specific groups or sections
Using topic or forum restrictions, you can create discussion areas where members of a group or section can collaborate on assignments or discuss course material in small teams. You can also use restrictions to create separate forums or topics for each group or section in a course offering. On the navbar, click Discussions.…
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Create group work areas for learners
Create group work areas for users with the Groups tool. You can use groups to organize users’ work on projects and assignments, or you can create special work areas for users with different learning needs. Users can belong to multiple groups within the same course. For example, each user can simultaneously belong to a…
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Create a group thread in an existing topic
Instructors can associate existing discussion topics to a new group or section during the group or section creation process. In addition, instructors can associate existing discussion topics to groups or sections not associated with any other discussion topic. Note that users can only associate existing discussion topics…
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Set up a quicklink to a discussion topic or forum within an existing Content topic
Set up a quicklink to a discussion topic in the New Content experience Navigate to Content. In the module where you want to add a quicklink to a discussion topic, click the Options (...) menu and click Edit. Figure: The Options (...) menu for a module showing the Edit option. On the Edit Topic page, in Brightspace Editor,…
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Evaluate discussions
In the Discussions tool, you can review and evaluate discussion topics and individual participants without changing your workflow. New Discussion Evaluation Experience The new Discussion Evaluation Experience is part of a redesign of all assessable tools. The new experience allows instructors to better review and evaluate…
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Manage discussion forums and topics
Once you have created discussion forums and topics for your learners, you can moderate discussions, hide and restrict access to discussions, and review discussion statistics. If a topic requires post approval or moderation, posts only appear to users with permission to approve them. You must manually approve these posts to…