Manage Active Discussions

Discussions enable you to facilitate class and group discussions on important academic and social topics. Students can reflect on learning, share ideas and opinions, or ask and answer questions. You can create, monitor, and reply to discussions, and students can participate in discussions you create. In addition, you can choose whether or not to score discussions.

To start an active discussion with your class, you must first create and assign a discussion prompt. Once a discussion prompt is assigned, you can view the details and status of the active discussion, as well as edit, hide, or score the discussion.

Manage a Discussion

  1. Click Classes on the top menu bar, and then click Discuss below the class name.
  2. Select the discussion and do one or more of the following:

Click Post a comment below the comment to which you want to respond, enter your response, and then click Post my comment.

Comments cannot be added to discussions that are past the due date.

  1. Click Post a comment, and then add a description or instructions.
  2. At the bottom of the Post a comment box, click Add attachment.
  3. Click Browse and select the file you want to attach.
  4. Click Attach, and then click Post my comment. The comment with the attachment is listed below Participant responses.

Realize supports the attachment of files up to 10 MB when posting comments on an active discussion. Supported file types include .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .jpg, .png, .mp3, .mp4, or .pdf. Once attached, files can be replaced, removed, or downloaded.

  1. Click Post a comment, and then add a description or instructions.
  2. At the bottom of the Post a comment box, click Attach from Google Drive.
  3. On the Select a file page, select the file on your Google Drive, and then click Select.
  4. Click Post my comment.

When you share an assignment, discussion, or custom lesson that contains a link to a Google Drive file, students access the same shared file; they do not receive a unique copy. In addition, access permissions for Google Drive files are controlled by Google Drive. Ensure share settings are configured properly in Google Drive.

  1. Click Post a comment, and then add a description or instructions.
  2. At the bottom of the Post a comment box, click Attach from Microsoft OneDrive.

  3. Select the file, and then click Open.

  4. Click Post my comment.
  1. Click Remove attachment below the comment.
  2. Click Undo to cancel the action.

Click Download attachment below the comment.

  • To remove a comment, click Remove comment at the bottom of the comment. You can choose to Undo, if needed.
  • To hide a comment a student posted, click Hide comment at the bottom of the comment. You can unhide it by selecting the Hidden comments box at the top of the page or click Undo.
  • To edit a comment you posted, click Edit comment at the bottom of the comment.

Discussions are different from other assignments in that students do not have a Turn In option. They are automatically turned in at midnight in the student's time zone on the due date.

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See Also

Create a Discussion Prompt

Edit a Discussion Prompt

Assign a Discussion Prompt