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The Discussion Board is an asynchronous communication tool that lets students or groups of students participate in threaded online forums. Discussion boards are hierarchically organized forums with threads and replies. Typically used by instructors to post course-related questions and have students provide answers.
Service Details
| Set-Up Discussion Boards | How-to create discussion boards / forums in your course |
| Set-Up Grading on a Discussion Board | How-to set up points for your discussion board/forum |
| Manage Your Discussions | Edit, delete, reorder your discussion boards |
| Anonymous Posting | Allows students to choose to post anonymously. Instructor must turn this option on in each forum where it is desired. |
| Ability to Subscribe | Allow anyone to subscribe to the forum and receive email alerts that new posts have been added |
| Moderation | A forum may be set to allow for moderation, which means that someone has to review and publish each post before other users see it. |
| Post Rating | Allow users to rate discussion posts based on a five-star rating |
| Group Discussions | Limit access to a discussion board to a subset of students based on “Groups”. |
| Search, Tag and Collect Posts | Search posts to limit a view. Collect posts to view a subset of posts. Tag posts to review later. |
| View Discussion Statistics | Monitor student use of the discussion boards through the performance dashboard. |
| Create Forums | A forum for students can create multiple threads to discuss a topic or group of related topics. |
| Policies | See specifics about policies |
Users
- Faculty