As an instructor, you can create a discussion for your course.Navigate to the Discussions Index by selecting Discussion in the course navigation menu. Next select the +Discussion button. From there, fill in all the appropriate files to completely create the discussion. Select save or Save & Publish once you are done. To learn more about creating discussions check out this link.

The Discussion Index page allows you to view all the discussions within a course. As an instructor, you can add discussions and modify discussion settings. To learn more click here.

In Course Navigation, click the Discussions link. Click the Add Discussion button. Enter a discussion title in the Topic Title field. Add discussion content using the Rich Content Editor. In the discussion options, select the This is a Group Discussion checkbox. To select an existing group set, click the Group Set drop-down menu. To create a new group category, click the New Group Category button. If you chose to create a new group category, enter the group set and group information in the Create Group Set modal. Type the group set name in the Group Set Name field.

If you want to allow for self sign-up for groups in the group set, check the Allow self sign-up checkbox. Select a group structure option in the Group Structure section. You can choose to split students into a set number of groups, split students into groups with a set number of students per group, or create groups later on the People page.

When you're finished, click the Save button to create the group set and groups. Enter the Availability Dates. Lastly, select Save or Save & Publish to create your discussion. You can refer to this group guides for more information about creating and editing group sets and creating groups. To learn more about group discussion click, here.

As an instructor, you can publish or unpublish a discussion in a course. Unpublished content is invisible to students, and graded discussions are excluded from grade calculations. On the Discussions index page, you can view the status of each discussion. Green icons indicate the discussion is published. Gray icons indicate unpublished discussions. You can change the status of a discussion by toggling the published and unpublished icons. To learn more click, here.