The Discussion feature in Materials brings an additional element of engagement for students and educators. This enables educators to drive topic-specific conversation and allows students to fully engage in the space content they are reading in the Materials.
This article will show you how to add a Discussion Box to your materials, how to remove it, and how discussion notifications work.
Add a Discussion
To add a discussion to a page in your Materials:
- Navigate to your Space and click on the Materials tile.
- Create a new page or edit an existing page.
- Scroll to the bottom of this page.
- Click + Add discussion.
- Write a Prompt.
- Save the change to your page.
Leave Comments and Replies
To leave a comment or a reply in a Discussion Box:
- Click on the Reply to comment arrow next to the name of the post's author.
- Type your comment/reply in the provided text box.
- Click on the Comment button in your text box.
Both students and educators are able to leave comments and reply to comments.
The text editor in the Discussion Box is the same native Aula editor you will see throughout the Aula platform, which means you can include the following in a discussion comment/reply:
- Text,
- Links that unfurl,
- Files (from your computer or online drives).
- Voice notes,
- Code blocks,
- LaTeX,
- Integrations,
- Assignment Blocks.
You can see more on this in Aula Editor: Format Your Text.
Discussion Notifications
You will receive notifications when someone replies to a comment you added in a Discussion Box. However, you will not receive notifications for other comments on it.