Discussion Forum
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
- Press Classes on the top menu bar, and then press Discuss below the class name.
- Select the discussion and do one or more of the following:
Press Create a response below the comment to which you want to respond, enter your response, add any attachments, and then press Submit my response. You can also delete the text you entered before submitting by pressing Clear Text.
Responses cannot be added to discussions that are past the due date.
- Press Create a response, and then add a description or instructions.
- At the bottom of the Create a response box, press Add Attachment.
- Press Select from device and select the file you want to attach.
- Press Attach, and then press Submit my response. The response with the attachment is listed below Participant responses.
Realize supports the attachment of files up to 10 MB when posting responses 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.
- Press Create a response, and then add a description or instructions.
- At the bottom of the Create a response box, press Add Attachment.
- Press Select from Google Drive and select the file you want to attach from your Google Drive.
- Press Attach, and then press Submit my response. The response with the attachment is listed below Participant responses.
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.
- Press Create a response, and then add a description or instructions.
- At the bottom of the Post a response box, press Add Attachment.
- Press Select from OneDrive and select the file you want to attach from your Microsoft OneDrive.
- Press Attach, and then press Submit my response. The response with the attachment is listed below Participant responses.
- Press the three-dot action menu for the response with the attachment you'd like to remove, then press File attached.
- In the Manage Attachments window, press Remove to remove the attachment. A confirmation saying File removed will replace the attached file.
- Press the X close button. You can also press Cancel to return to the responses.
- Press Submit my response to complete editing the response.
Press the attachment link below the response to download the attachment.
- To delete a response, press the three-dot action menu for that response and press Delete response. You can choose to undo this action by pressing Undo delete for that specific response.
- To edit a response, press the three-dot action menu for that response, then press Edit response. Note that if you go to edit another response without submitting your changes for your previous response, that original response will close without saving your changes.
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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