In the previous chapter, you learned how to add static material to a course. In this chapter, we will discuss how to add interaction to a course using Discussion Board. The activities that we will cover enable students to collaborate with each other and with the instructor. These activities require feedback and guidance from the instructor to make them work. In this chapter, we will cover the following:
Creating forums with Discussion Board
Creating links to specific forums
Collecting posts in a forum
Grading posts in a forum
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...