📢 Discussion activity

We've always believed that student collaboration is an important element when you want to create an effective learning experience. Today we're introducing the discussion activity so you can start leveraging the hive mind of all your course participants!

How it works

To add a discussion activity, simply go to your course, click the blue 'Add activities & flows' button and find the discussion activity in the list. Like with all other activities, you can add as many as you want, give it a description, set up prerequisites and add deadlines.

When you add a discussion activity to your course, students get the option to post and reply to topics. Once a student has either posted a topic or left a reply, the activity will get marked as complete. This way, students will be motivated to actively participate in discussions!

Combine discussion activities with tags

To create a comfortable space for students to interact with each other, smaller groups create a safer environment in a vulnerable learning process. With the discussion activity, you can separate students into smaller discussion groups by combining it with our 'tags' feature.

1. Add a 'select a tag' activity where students select a tag for themselves, or tag them yourself in the 'Participants' page.
2. Add a discussion activity.
3. Go the the activity settings and enable 'Separate discussions by tags'
4. That's it! Now students will only be able to see discussion topics made by other students with corresponding tags.

If you wish to learn more about the discussion activity and explore course templates that's using discussion activities in interesting ways, visit https://www.eduflow.com/discussion-activity for more info!