This article covers the Instructor features for the Discussion panel in the legacy classroom player. For the newer player, see Monitoring Discussion in the New Player.
The Discussion panel is one way to encourage and monitor student questions, responses, or other relevant posts in the classroom. Any posts made in the classroom also appear in the Q&A tab for the course.
As an instructor or teaching assistant, you can delete any questions or responses posted by students if they are inappropriate. Note that deleting questions will also delete any responses posted to the question.
Some institutions disable the Q&A functionality; if you do not see the Discussions button or panel described below, check with your school's help desk to see if this is the case with your institution.
To endorse a particular post, click the thumbs up icon.
To monitor classroom questions / discussions
- Go to the classroom.
- If the media is embedded in a frame in an LMS / VLE page, you will see a Discussions link in the bottom left of the frame. Otherwise, the Discussions Panel is open, as shown in the figure below.
- To add a question, enter it into the text box and click Add Post, as shown in the figure above.
- To respond to a question, click Reply, enter your reply into the text box, and click Post A Reply.
- To delete a post, click the vertical action dots to the right of the question or response you want to delete. Click Delete to delete the post.
Note that any changes made in the Discussions panel of the classroom are also reflected in the Q&A tab for the course.