You can create a new post on the Discussions page, comment on an existing post, or reply to an existing comment.
To visit the Course Discussions, click on the Discussion tab on the upper right corner.
On the discussions page, you will see posts sorted based on Trending, but you can adjust this sorting yourself to most liked, most commented, or most recent. Furthermore, you can sort based on posts you are following, posts you have commented on, and posts you have liked posts.
When creating a new post, you will be asked to specify which topic the post belongs to. You can also follow course topics if you would like email updates to be sent as new comments are made. Learn more about managing discussion subscriptions here. You can customize your posts or comments in a number of ways: ordered or unordered lists; hyperlinks; font styles, colors, and highlighting; and text alignment.
You can also upload a variety of media in a comment. Some examples of media content you may want to upload include: Pictures (PNG, JPG, JPEG), PDF files, Powerpoint Presentations (PPTX), Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets, Microsoft Word Documents, and Text files.
You may also tag a fellow learner in your comments using the '@' key; learn more here.
You can also like discussion posts or see who liked your discussion post by clicking on the thumbs-up icon.
Team Discussion Activity
Overview
Learners can view and participate in a team discussion from their lesson page and access the team discussion from the team workspace. There is a new social interaction that integrates the workspace course content and course activities to drive team discussion from lessons.
Learner:
Course participants can view and participate in their team discussion activities on the lesson page once the content is released. A number badge on the team discussion notifies the viewer, informing them of discussion activities and new messages since their last visit to the thread. Members of course-long teams will be able to participate and view the discussion contributions.
Other forms of participant notifications are web and email notifications. Web Notifications are sent to other team members for every activity in the discussion. Email notifications are triggered from discussion activity based on the participant's account settings.
To Participate in the Team Discussion Assignment from the Lesson Page:
- Select the Start the Discussion button or the Join the Discussion button on the lesson page.
- Enter your response in the Start typing here... box or select the reply arrow to another comment.
- Select the blue Comment button when complete.
To Participate in the Team Discussion Assignment from the Team Workspace:
- Select the Start the Discussion button or the Join the Discussion button on the lesson page.
- Enter your response in the Start typing here... box or select the reply arrow to another comment.
- Select the blue Comment button when complete.
Notable update:
All Discussion activity will load up to 15 comments along with 3 replies expanded by default and not limited to the Team Discussion activity and affects all discussions course-wide.
Mobile App Support:
- Mobile apps will have a native component in the lesson page for Team discussion activity.
- Mobile version update will be released following the web version. In the meantime, a generic component unavailable section placeholder with an option to view the page on the web will be displayed.