When would I use Threaded Discussions?
Threaded Discussions lend themselves to the refining of complex ideas. Responses and different lines of inquiry that can be quickly navigated due to its hierarchical structure. Threaded Discussions may be long-standing spaces for thoughts that persist throughout an entire course.
View Threaded Discussions
Use a Threaded Discussion for multiple posts and related comments. One or more discussion leaders post a message and multiple learners comment on it with the freedom to create any number of related discussion topics and comments (infinite layers of nesting). Learn more about how threaded discussions are organized.
Threaded Discussions might also be used to:
- post and answer multiple related or unrelated questions
- organize results from a complex research activity
- share and iterate upon ideas shared by each student in the course
- debate the pros and cons of a single issue or multiple issues
- ask multiple questions of a single discussion leader
- refine ideas between multiple discussion leaders and multiple learners
- facilitate group discussions around multiple topics
- facilitate discussions around a discussion (fishbowl conversations)
- explore at length the feasibility of different solutions to a complex problem