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Instructor Documentation (Higher Ed)

Engage using Discussions

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.…
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. Lock a discussion topic or forum in the New Discussions creation experience Lock a discussion forum or topic to prevent learner replies and posts.…
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,…