Course: Career Communication

Discussions

The Discussions tool is a collaboration area to post, read and reply to posts on different topics, share thoughts about course materials, ask questions, share files, or work with your peers on assignments and homework.

You will spend a great deal of time creating posts and responding to other student posts in online classes. It is therefore critical for you to become familiar with how the Discussion Board works. It will also be essential you post regularly - usually from the first day of class.

Note: Posting to a college class Discussions Board requires students to use higher writing standards than are often used when posting on social media web sites. It is important to be respectful with comments to others, write in complete sentences and to avoid slang, vulgar language, acronyms (e.g., lol, btw, gr8) and "shouting" (i.e., writing words or phrases in all capital letters).

Accessing Discussions

1. Click Discussions on the Course NavBar.

Note: You may also see links to specific discussion topics in Content.

2. Navigate to the Discussion Forum you want to access and then click the Discussion topic title to open it.

3. When you click the Discussion Topic, you will see the Discussion Instructions for how to post to the discussion, you may see an attached Rubric for grading, and you will see Discussion Treads (unless you are the first to post!)

Start a New Discussion Thread

Note: Make sure you follow your instructor's instructions about if he/she wants you to start a new discussion thread or reply to an existing discussion thread. Not following the instructor's directions may influence your grade.

1. Navigate to the Discussion Topic you want to post to and click the Topic Title to open it.

2. Click Start a New Thread

3. Enter a Subject and your discussion message and then click Post.

Note: If you need to add an attachment, click Add Attachments and then following the directions in the D2L Email lesson for how to attach a file.

Reply to a Discussion Thread

Note: Make sure you follow your instructor's instructions about if he/she wants you to start a new discussion thread or reply to an existing discussion thread. Not following the instructor's directions may influence your grade.

1. Navigate to the Discussion Thread you want to reply to and click the Thread title to open it.

2. Click Reply to Thread

4.Enter your message above the text in the message box and then click Post.

Note: If you need to add an attachment, click Add Attachments and then following the directions in the D2L Email lesson for how to attach a file.