Create Discussions
Create a Discussion Forum:
Use forums to organize your discussion topics into categories. Your course can have multiple forums and topics, but you must create a forum before you can create a topic. When in doubt, OTTL recommends naming the forum after your class (ex: NSG 200 Discussions).
On the navbar, click Discussions.
On the Discussions List page, from the New button drop-down menu, click New Forum.
Enter a title for your new forum.
Enter a description for your new forum.
In the Options section, select any of the following check boxes:
Allow anonymous posts - To enable users to post anonymously.
A moderator must approve individual posts before they display in the forum - To ensure that posts are approved by a moderator before they display in the forum.
Users must start a thread before they can read and reply to other threads in each topic - To ensure user participation.
Display forum descriptions in topics - To provide instructors the option to display a discussion forum description within a discussion topic description.
Click Save and Close.
Create a Discussion Topic:
Your course can have multiple forums and topics, but you must create a forum (directions above) before you can create a topic since all topics belong to forums.
On the navbar, click Discussions.
On the Discussions List page, from the New button, click New Topic.
From the drop-down list, select the forum you want to put your topic in.
Enter your New Topic Details.
On the Restrictions tab, select Availability options for your topic.
Select Locking Options for your topic. Locking a topic prevents users from posting to it until it is unlocked; they can still read post made prior to it being locked.
Click Save and Close.