Discussions allows you and your students and teaching assistants to engage in online discussions. Discussions is divided into different topic areas which allow you to create discussion forums 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.
By default, Discussions contains three public topics:
- Main: the main discussion area
- Notes: contains messages related to a page of content in a Content Module
- All: contains all messages from all public topics
With Discussions, you can:
- send and read messages
- search messages
- compile and download messages
- create, delete, or rename a topic
- add members to a private topic
- lock a topic, making it unavailable
For users who are new to WebCT, we recommend that you use the Discussion Wizard. The wizard guides you, step-by-step, through the following tasks:
- create a topic and post a message
- post a message to an existing topic
To access the wizard from within Discussions,
click 
Use Discussion Wizard.
For more information about wizards, see Course
Design Center. Note:
Depending on administrator settings, this feature may not be available
to you.