Discussions for Communication
Canvas provides an integrated system for class discussions, allowing both instructors and students to start and contribute to as many discussion topics as desired. Discussions can also be created as an assignment for grading purposes (and seamlessly integrated with the Canvas Gradebook), or simply serve as a forum for topical and current events. Discussions can also be created within student groups.
You can use Discussions to:
- Help students start thinking about an upcoming Assignment or class discussion.
- Follow-up on a conversation or questions that began in a face-to-face classroom.
- Test student comprehension of important points made in class.
- Debate contradictory ideas.
- Brainstorm different approaches to a class problem.
Video
Watch the following video to learn more about discussions in Canvas:
To learn more about Discussions take a look at the following guides:
What are discussions?
Creating and editing (group) discussions
- How do I create a discussion as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a group discussion in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I edit a discussion in a course? Links to an external site.
Graded discussions
- How do I assign a graded discussion to an individual student? Links to an external site.
- How do I assign a graded discussion to a course section? Links to an external site.
- How do I assign a graded discussion to a course group? Links to an external site.
Peer review discussions
- What is a peer review discussion? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a peer review discussion? Links to an external site.
- How do I manually assign peer reviews for a discussion? Links to an external site.
- How do I automatically assign peer reviews for a discussion? Links to an external site.
Discussions, how do I…
- How do I use the Discussions Index Page? Links to an external site.
- How do I use Draft State in Discussions? Links to an external site.
- How do I view and sort discussion replies as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I attach a file to a discussion reply as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I enable a podcast feed for a discussion in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I delay posting a discussion until a specified date in a course? Links to an external site.
- How can I require students to reply to a course discussion before they see other replies? Links to an external site.
- How do I pin a discussion in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I close a discussion for comments in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I delete a discussion in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I reply to a discussion as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I allow students to like replies in a discussion? Links to an external site.
- How do I like a reply in a course discussion? Links to an external site.
- How do I allow students to attach files to a course discussion? Links to an external site.
- How do I allow students to create a course discussion? Links to an external site.
- How do I allow students to edit and delete their own discussion posts in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I change discussion settings to manually mark discussion replies as read? Links to an external site.
- How do I mark discussion replies as read or unread as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I subscribe to a discussion as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I edit or delete student discussion replies in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I link to a YouTube video in a discussion reply as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as an instructor? Links to an external site.