Discussions are used to facilitate online communication between you and your peers. Not all courses use discussions, but for those that do, instructors often require participation from students. Please see your Instructional Plan for more details.

Post a New Discussion Thread

1. Go to Course Tools -> Discussions.
2. Click the title of the Topic you wish to post into.
3. Click Start a New Thread under the topic description.
4. Enter a Subject for your post, then type the text of your post into the large text box.
5. When you're finished, click Post.

Reply to a Thread

1. Go to Course Tools -> Discussions.
2. Click the title of the Topic.
3. Click the title of the Thread you wish to reply to.
4. Click Reply to Thread.
5. Type your reply into the large text box.
6. Click Post at the bottom.

If you don't see any posts in a Discussion Topic, it's possible that your instructor has set up the discussion so that students must make their own post before they can see other students' posts. If this setting is enabled, you will see the other posts after you start your own thread.