Before you and your students can use Discussions, you must add it to your course. For instructions, see Adding a Page or Tool . Discussion s allows you and your students and teaching assistants to send, read, and search for messages. Discussions is divided into different topics which allow you to create discussion groups around particular subjects.
Topics can be public or private.
Everyone in your course can access public topics, while private topics are available only to the set of students and teaching assistants that you choose. See the Index for Discussions for a list of help topics.