Cultivating an engaging, interactive learning environment is key to promoting critical thinking and self-regulatory skills. And peer discussion is among effective ways to stimulate a space that encourages meaningful interactions, and reflections. However, the absence of physical contacts in online learning makes it challenging to facilitate student-student interactions.
Discussion on Topic lets instructors create engaging discussion forums to stimulate active learning, collaboration, and a sense of belonging.
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Instructors create discussion assignments, specify the instructions, discussion topics, deadlines, collaboration options, and other requirements.
Students engage in the discussion, following the guidelines on giving comments set by instructors.
Students can write a reflection on their performance throughout the assignment, which can be counted as part of the final grade.
Students can discuss the topic individually or within groups. When the groups are activated, students can respond to the discussion prompt in the same assignment, while only seeing the contributions made by peers within their group.
Provide detailed analytics on student participation and progress in the assignments, from which teachers can identify who has completed the required steps and which student might need help.
Allow teachers and students to identify which comments or points to focus on with multiple ways of filtering and sorting the discussion input: the most/least comments, the most upvotes, and more.
Make submitters of discussion posts and repliers to those posts anonymous if desired. This promotes inclusivity by encouraging all students to contribute.
Set up a reflection step at the end of the activity, in which students write a reflection on what they learned from the discussion assignment. This encourages critical thinking and deeper understanding of the topics.
Students can discuss the topic individually or within groups. When the groups are activated, students can respond to the discussion prompt in the same assignment, while only seeing the contributions made by peers within their group.
Provide detailed analytics on student participation and progress in the assignments, from which teachers can identify who has completed the required steps and which student might need help.
Allow teachers and students to identify which comments or points to focus on with multiple ways of filtering and sorting the discussion input: the most/least comments, the most upvotes, and more.
Make submitters of discussion posts and repliers to those posts anonymous if desired. This promotes inclusivity by encouraging all students to contribute.
Set up a reflection step at the end of the activity, in which students write a reflection on what they learned from the discussion assignment. This encourages critical thinking and deeper understanding of the topics.
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so you and your students don't need a separate login account and do the activity with ease. See integrations →
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