How to Create Group Discussion Boards
Setting Up Group Discussion Boards
Select Users and Groups
Click Groups
Select Create and then underneath Group Set: choose Manual Enroll
Give it a name. The name will be automatically followed by numerical numbers.
Un-check all boxes EXCEPT for Discussion Board.
Enter in the # of Groups you will have for the class.
Check ON, "Create smart view for each group in set."
Click Submit
Adding Group Discussion Tool to the Course Menu
Click the + symbol in the upper left corner.
Select Tool Link
Give it a name such as "Group Discussion"
Change type to Groups
Make it available to users and click Submit
Enrolling Students into their Discussion Groups
Go to Users and Groups
Groups
Hover over any of the Discussion Groups and click the arrowed chevron
Select Edit Group
Scroll all the way down, and click Add Users, directly underneath "MEMBERSHIP"
Select the users you want to add, click Submit
Then click Submit a SECOND time.
Repeat steps for all discussion boards / groups.
4. Settings for Group Discussion Boards (Question Prompt, Grades, and More)
Go to Users and Groups
Groups
Click inside one of the Discussion Boards
Select Group Discussion Board
Hover over the Forum labeled Discussion Board # and click the arrowed chevron
Select Edit
Paste the question or prompt you want students to respond to inside the Description box.Â
Change the "Viewing Threads/Replies" setting to "Participants must create a thread in order to view other threads in this forum."
Change the "Grade" setting to "Grade Discussion Forum: Points possible" , to 10 for example.
Change the "Subscribe" setting to "Allow members to subscribe to threads." (Optional)
Repeat steps for all discussion boards / groups.
