Discussions let you conduct online conversations with your students on course-related subjects.
Different kinds of users can create discussions:
Discussions
The Discussions tab displays all of the course's discussions, including:
This lets you create a new, non-graded discussion that is attached to the lesson. You can also add a graded discussion to the lesson.
Start by going to Lessons and clicking a Lesson title.
To add a new discussion:
To add a graded discussion:
There are three ways to create new discussions in your course
This lets you create a non-graded discussion that is attached to the course. If need be, you can later connect it to an assignment or a lesson.
Now that you've created this discussion, it will show up either under current or future discussions. It is not graded, but you can link it to a discussion-type assignment later on.
Graded assignments give you lots of options for grading requirements and other details. To set those up, go to the discussion assignment's page.