Messages Discussion s allows students, instructors, and teaching assistants to send, read, and search for messages. Discussions is divided into different topics which allow your instructor 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 the instructor chooses. With Discussions , you can send and read messages search messages compile messages into a single file for downloading See the Index for Discussions for a list of help topics.