This guide will provide procedures for creating and posting discussion prompts in facilitated courses. Note: You must first create a group for each facilitated course in order to post discussions to the group. See guide How to Enroll Learners in Facilitated Courses for details.
Instructions:
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Locate and click on the Discussions’ icon on the course page.
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Click on “add a new discussion topic” underneath the group name.
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The discussion forum is used to initiate and encourage reflective practice and promote discussion among and between other learners and the facilitator.
Provide a subject line that will help the learner identify what course, which session, discussion topic # (if there are several for this session) and date due. Type your posting in the message block. 
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You can also attach documents to the discussion posting. Once you have completed your posting, click post to forum.
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All learners and the facilitator in this group will be automatically subscribed to all forum postings.
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Once you have posted your discussion prompt, you will see this message.
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You can edit/delete/reply to the posting.
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You can review replies in threaded form, oldest to newest or in parent form where the topic questions displays with all of the replies related to that particular posting.
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The news forum can be used to disseminate general information or announcements to the group enrolled in your course. Click on News Forum.
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Click on add a new topic.
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Complete the required information (subject and message) and click post to forum.
This document was last modified on: August 31, 2017