Your course's Discussion Board enables students to interact with each other, and also with the instructor. Discussions can be as follows:
Moderated or unmoderated
Graded or ungraded
Attributed or anonymous
Depending upon your installation, there could be a default Discussion Board for each course. The Discussion Board consists of one or more forums. Each forum contains threads. So the hierarchy is as follows:
Discussion Board (there is one default created for your course)
Forum (there can be many)
Thread (there can be many)
The following screenshot shows our course's Discussion Board with two forums:
Let's begin by learning to use the course's default Discussion Board.