The Discussions list Teachers can use Discussions to create and manage online classroom discussions. Two kinds of discussions are available in Campus Instruction collects both scored and unscored discussions, scored discussions that are aligned to an assignment and unscored discussions that are not. These discussions can be related to course content, group work, and other various classroom activities. Scored discussions are created in assignments and unscored discussions are created in the Discussions tool. An existing unscored discussion cannot be aligned to an assignment.
Students must use Campus Student to respond to discussions, not the Campus Portal. In Campus Student discussions list collects all discussions assigned to the student, both those aligned to assignments and those that aren't. Click Students can click a discussion to respond to the teacher's prompt or respond to a classmate.Scored discussions are indicated by the icon.
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Students can also access discussions aligned to an assignment through that specific assignment.
inappropriate content can be flagged, which alerts the teacher that there is content which should be reviewed.
Creating a New Unscored Discussion
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Make a new post by clicking Create a Post
Generate a printable version of the discussion.
Edit the discussion details.
Reply to students.
Flag student content and resolve flags. See the Flagged Posts section for more information.
If a discussion doesn't have student responses yet, it can be Archived to hide it from the teacher's discussion list.
In an assignment that has a discussion enabled, the Assignment Name becomes the Name of the discussion and the Student Instructions serves as the discussion prompt. Once enabled, time fields are added to the Assigned and Due Dates. Scroll up after enabling the discussion to modify times.
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