There are two ways to create and add discussions to your course content. The first is to click on the "Content" tab in the blue navbar.

 

          

 

From the left side of the page, click on the module you want to add a discussion to.

 

          

 

Click on the blue "Upload/Create" button and scroll down to "New Discussion"

 

          

 

Give your discussion a title, instructions, and start/end dates. When you are finished, click on the blue "Save and Close" button at the bottom of the page.

 

You can also create a discussion by clicking on the "Course Admin" tab in the blue navbar and scrolling down to "Discussions" under the Communication section.

 

             

 

From here, click on the blue "New" button and then click on "New Forum" or "New topic." A forum is like a folder for discussion topics. If you have multiple discussion topics each week, you could put them all in a discussion forum called "Week 1 Discussions" for example to help you organize them.  

 

          

Give your discussion forum/topic a title and instructions/description and click on the blue "Save and Close" button. Finally, head to the "Content" tab in the blue navbar. Click into the module you want to add your discussion to. Then click on the grey "Existing Activities" button and then scroll down to "Discussions."

 

          

 

Click on the discussion you'd like to add

 

         

 

Finally, click on the "plus" icon to insert your discussion into the module