You can tag a friend in posts/comments you write in the discussions and in your team workspace. Simply do so by typing the '@' key, which will opens a drop-down menu of available members in the course whom you can tag.
Your peer will receive a notification in their email inbox that you mentioned them in a post/comment.
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