Discussions – Brightspace

Contents on this page as follows. See D2L’s Brightspace Discussion Tool for Instructors Playlist for more.

Introduction to Discussions
Create a Discussion Forum
Create a Discussion Topic
How to Moderate a Discussion Topic
How to Grade a Discussion Topic
Add a Rubric to a Discussion Topic
How to Make a Group Discussion (visible only to a select group of students)
Discussion Restrictions for Visibility and Feedback Sharing
Use Private Discussions for Journalling

In Brightspace there are three elements that make up the discussion tool:

Forum: A forum is like a container for your topics. A course with discussions must have at least one forum for discussion to happen. A forum will be populated with one or more topics. You can create different forums for organizing your discussion topics.
Topic: The topic represents what will be discussed. You may add as many topics to a forum as you wish.
Thread: The first comment within a topic begins a thread. Students and instructors can participate in a thread by responding to others. New threads may be started under one topic.

NOTE: If your course has been copied from Blackboard you may already have discussion topics and in that case, a forum will have been created for you.
If you are working on a new course, you will have to create a forum before you can create discussion topics.

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