The discussion forum can be used for students to submit assignments, such as short comments on a topic. The teacher has the opportunity to score these posts and count them towards the student's overall grade.
Setting up a topic-based discussion forum for submitting assignments:
- Enable scoring. A field will then appear next to the posts for entering the number of points. This will be saved in a notebook with the same name as the discussion forum name. In addition to the course teachers, discussion forum moderators can also score posts.
- If you don't want students to be influenced by their classmates' contributions at the beginning of the discussion, choose the option "posts can only be read by those who have made at least one contribution to the discussion".
- If it's just a collection of short statements and not for further discussion, choose "everyone can only make one post".
- If students are asked to write a text of a certain length, select the option "display the number of characters and words for posts".
1 Text field for entering the scoring of the post. Both points and verbal evaluation can be entered, both will be transferred to the notebook. Only the moderator of the discussion can see this field.
TipIn the header of the discussion forum, tell students the rules of communication (activity is required, but not at the expense of quality; peer evaluation of contributions is intended to create a quality and useful discussion).