As an instructor, you can create a discussion for your course. Discussions can be graded or ungraded.

• How do I create a discussion as an instructor?
• How can I require students to reply to a course discussion before they see other replies?
• How do I delay posting a discussion until a specified date in a course?

You can easily reply to any discussion, threaded or focused.

• How do I reply to a discussion as an instructor?
• How do I mark discussion replies as read or unread as an instructor?

Graded discussions are available where you can specify a due date and availability dates. You can assign a graded discussion to an individual student, course section, course group, or everyone.

• How do I assign a graded discussion to everyone in a course?
• How do I assign a graded discussion to an individual student?

A group discussion assignment creates an identical discussion topic in each group category. When students reply to the discussion topic they do so within their group environment, which is linked to the course from which the assignment was created.

NOTE:

To create group discussions in Canvas, you will first have to create group sets and groups.

• How do I create a group discussion in a course?
• How do I assign a graded discussion to a course group?

A peer review discussion enables students to provide feedback on another student's reply to a class discussion. Peer reviews are a tool that allows communication between students and can help students master the concepts of a course and learn from each other.

• How do I use peer review discussions in a course?
• How do I create a peer review discussion?
• How do I automatically assign peer reviews for a discussion?