Provide learners a space to meet, discuss, and engage in conversation regarding their training, program, or course. Our discussions allow a range of features including images, image markup, whiteboards, file attachments, and videos.
Create a Discussion
To create a discussion:
- Navigate to the Community page in your course.
- Click into the “write something...” area.
- Add a title and type in your discussion text. You can also add an image, video, file attachment, or whiteboard to your post.
- Click Post.
Add a Discussion to a Course
If you’ve already created a discussion, it currently exists only within your course’s community. Place it within a lesson to contextualize the discussion within lesson content.
- Navigate to the Lessons page.
- Click “Start Editing” in the bottom right-hand corner.
- While in Edit Mode, click on “+Add Content” in the section you want to place the discussion.
- Select “Discussion” in the “Choose a content type” window.
- Select the discussion you want to add to your lesson by clicking on the discussion.
- After selecting your discussion, click the “Add to Lesson” button in the lower right-hand corner.
- Add information that learners can see about the discussion.
- Section that contains the discussion
- Position of the discussion within the section
- Discussion title
- Discussion thumbnail image
Note: You can change the thumbnail image displayed for the discussion by clicking on the default image, then browsing your computer file manager for the desired image.
- Click “Add to Lesson” to place your discussion in the course.
Edit a Discussion
To edit the display name or thumbnail:
- While in Edit Mode, click on “+Add Content” in the section you want to edit.
- Click “Edit” on the content.
- Make necessary edits.
- The section where the discussion is placed
- The relative position of the discussion within the section
- The discussion title
- The discussion thumbnail image
- Delete the discussion
- Click “Save” to save your changes.
To edit the discussion content:
- Navigate to the Community page.
- Open the discussion you wish to edit by clicking on it.
- Select the three dot menu in the upper right-corner and select “Edit.”
- Make your edits.
- Click “Update.”
Delete Discussion
To remove from lesson, simply click the “x” on the content item on the Lessons page.
To permanently delete discussion:
- Navigate to the Community page.
- Open the discussion you wish to edit by clicking on it.
- Select the three dot menu in the upper right-corner and select “Delete”
- Confirm deletion.