Create discussions (Ultra)

Discussions can encourage students to think critically about their coursework and interact with each others' ideas. You can create discussions around individual course lessons or for your course in general.

You can create discussions in two locations within your course:

on the Course Content page
on the Discussions page

The discussion tasks can be:

Formative (non-graded) or summative (graded).
For the graded discussion, you can enable the setting to create a column in Gradebook to record students' grades.

Create discussion task in Course Content page

Access your Learn.UQ course.

Scroll down to the Learning Modules. Click on the plus (+) button in the relevant module to add content.

Select the Create option from the drop-down menu.

The Create Item list will be displayed.

Select the Discussion option.

Enter a title for the discussion task in the name textbox.
Enter the discussion topic (or questions) in the instruction textbox.
Change the status to Visible to students (if you want students to see the task).

Click on the cog button to select the settings for your discussion task.

Select the required settings for your discussion tasks:

Display on Course Content page: The discussion task will be displayed in the Content area in your selected Learning Module.
Post first: Students need to post their response before they can see other students' responses.
Prevent editing: Students cannot edit or delete published posts.
Allow anonymous responses and replies: Note: It is not possible to make a discussion with anonymous posts.
Mark discussion: A column will be created in Gradebook to record the mark of the discussion.

If you select the Mark Discussion setting, you need to scroll down to complete the marking settings.

Enter the due date.
Check the Stop discussion activity after due date checkbox.
Enter the required Maximum points.
Optionally, click on the Add marking rubric to create a rubric for marking the discussion task.
Click on the Save button.

The discussion task has been added to your learning module content area.

Create discussion task in Discussions page

Access your Learn.UQ course.
Click on the Discussions tab at the top navigation.

All discussion tasks you created will be stored in the Discussions tab.

Click on the New Discussion button to create a new discussion task.

Enter a title for the discussion task in the name textbox.
Enter the discussion topic (or questions) in the instruction textbox.
Change the status to Visible to students (if you want students to see the task).
Click on the Marking button.

The cog button will be displayed. Click on the cog button to complete the settings for the discussion task.

Select the required settings for the discussion task.

Display on Course Content page: The discussion task will be displayed in the Content area in your selected Learning Module.
Post first: Students need to post their response before they can see other students' responses.
Prevent editing: Students cannot edit or delete published posts.
Allow anonymous responses and replies: Note: It is not possible to make a discussion with anonymous posts.
Mark discussion: A column will be created in Gradebook to record the mark of the discussion.

If you select the Mark Discussion setting, you need to scroll down to complete the marking settings.

Enter the due date.
Check the Stop discussion activity after due date checkbox.
Enter the required Maximum points.
Optionally, click on the Add marking rubric to create a rubric for marking the discussion task.
Click on the Save button.