Conversations About Course Content

You can have conversations with your students when they have questions about content items. They can converse with each other and ask for help, share sources, or answer questions others have. These conversations are not graded. The content items that can have conversations enabled are:

• Documents

• Assignments

• Group assignments

• Tests

• Group tests

• Offline submissions

• Links to teaching tools

1. When creating one of the above content items, check the box to allow conversations.

   

2. Students can begin a conversation by clicking the ellipsis to the right of the content name and then choosing conversation.

   

3. Students can type a comment and click Respond.

4. As the instructor you will see a blue icon next to the content name when a student has submitted a conversation. Click this icon and then click the conversation bubble icon.

   

   1. You can also click the ellipsis at the right side of the content row and click Conversation.

      

5. View the question and type a response.

   

6. Any further responses from the student will be indicated by the blue icon in the list of course content. After accessing the conversation thread, you will be able to click Show Replies to see the full conversation.

   

7. You and the students will be able to view all replies in the conversations.