00:07: How do I view discussions as an observer?

00:10: In course, navigation, click the discussions link.

00:14: Pinned discussions. These are discussions that your students teacher wants you to

00:18: pay specific attention to and will appear at the top of the discussions page.

00:22: You will only see this section heading if there are discussions within this section as designated

00:27: by your students teacher,

00:30: Discussions. These are current discussions within your students course.

00:33: Discussions are ordered by most recent activity.

00:37: You will only see this section heading if there are discussions within this section,

00:42: Closed for comments. These discussions have been manually closed for comments

00:46: or the discussion is past the available from until date.

00:50: These are discussions that are only available in a read-only state and are ordered by

00:54: most recent activity. You will always see this section heading,

00:59: even if there are no discussions within this section,

01:03: Each discussion displays whether or not it is a graded discussion.

01:06: The name of the discussion, the date on which the last discussion reply

01:10: was posted the due date. If any

01:14: The number of unread total posts in the discussion and whether or not you

01:18: are subscribed to, the discussion is also displayed.

01:22: You can also view availability, dates for individual discussions.

01:26: An unread icon. Next to a discussion indicates an unread discussion.

01:30: The number of unread total posts will not appear for group discussions

01:34: and discussions that have no discussion replies.

01:38: There will also be a peer review icon. If a graded discussion has been assigned

01:42: peer reviews.

01:45: The first dates you may see are the availability dates.

01:47: Your instructor may use availability dates to restrict discussion replies

01:52: to a specified date range. The availability dates are the range

01:56: of time that the discussion is accessible to you.

01:59: Availability dates. Also appear on the assignments page for all discussions with

02:03: assigned availability dates.

02:06: If the discussion does not have a date listed, the discussion is open, you

02:10: can reply to the discussion at any time during your course.

02:14: If the discussion says not available until date, the discussion is locked

02:18: until the specified date.

02:21: If the discussion says available until date, you can reply to the discussion

02:26: until the specified date.

02:29: If the discussion is in the closed for comments section, the discussion cannot

02:33: accept submissions. Discussions in this section may show was

02:37: locked at date to indicate when the discussion was closed for comments.

02:42: The second set of dates, are the due dates for each respective discussion.

02:46: However, due dates only apply to graded discussions, any replies

02:51: to discussions after the due date or marked as late.

02:53: Your students, teacher May deduct points for late replies.

02:57: You can still reply to late discussion before the available until the date.

03:02: Please be aware that the due date may be before or on the available date.

03:06: Due dates. Also include a time if your students instructor does not set

03:11: a due time, the listed date displays the courses default due time.

03:16: To filter discussions by view. All or only unread discussions, select

03:20: an option from the drop-down menu.

03:23: Search for a discussion by typing. It a discussion title a username or

03:27: a keyword in the search field.

03:30: Change the discussion settings to manually Mark posts as read by clicking the settings

03:35: icon,

03:37: To view the details of a discussion, click the name of the discussion.

03:42: A discussion includes three sections. The discussion toolbar discussion

03:46: topic and discussion replies.

03:50: The discussion, toolbar allows you to search the discussion and filter and sort replies.

03:56: To search for replies or specific authors, enter your terms in the search field.

04:01: To filter replies. Click the all drop down menu.

04:04: You can filter by all replies or unread replies.

04:09: By default discussion replies are sorted by date from newest to oldest

04:14: To reverse, the sort order, click the sort button, the selected sort

04:18: order, automatically becomes the new default for the discussion.

04:22: To view threaded replies. In a split screen.

04:24: Sidebar click the view split screen button.

04:29: To view, threaded replies all at once, click the expand threads button, You

04:34: can collapse the threaded replies by clicking, the collapse threads button.

04:38: When you expand or collapse discussion threads, they will automatically be expanded

04:42: or collapsed. The next time you view the discussion.

04:46: To view threaded, replies, inline, click the inline button,

04:51: The discussion topic section includes important information about the discussion

04:55: including the discussion title and description.

04:59: The due date and availability dates display if enabled.

05:03: The discussion replies display, the total number of replies and unread replies.

05:09: To subscribe to the discussion, click the Subscribe icon.

05:13: To view the options menu for a discussion, click the options icon from

05:18: the options menu, you can mark all replies as read or Mark all replies

05:22: as unread. If the instructor added a rubric for the discussion, you

05:26: can view it by clicking the show rubric link.

05:30: Discussion replies display below the discussion topic.

05:33: If the discussion allows threaded replies, you can view them in line

05:37: or in a split screen, sidebar.

05:40: When viewing discussion Fred replies, you can view them in a split-screen, sidebar

05:44: in-line on the same page. When viewing inline collapse

05:48: and expand all discussion threads by clicking, the expand threads and collapse

05:53: threads buttons.

05:55: When a discussion thread reply is collapsed.

05:57: You can view the reply, indicators showing the number of unread and total replies.

06:02: To expand the discussion thread for an individual reply, click the hash

06:06: replies link.

06:09: To view, threaded, reply options, click the options icon.

06:12: You can Mark replies as read unread, Mark, fretted

06:16: replies, as read, unread return to the topic or report the reply.

06:22: To view, split screen, discussion, thread replies.

06:24: Click the view, split screen button.

06:27: When viewing split-screen discussion thread replies discussion reply,

06:32: threads are collapsed You can view the reply, indicators showing the number

06:36: of unread and total replies.

06:39: To expand the discussion, thread replies. Sidebar, click the hash replies

06:44: link.

06:45: View, the read and unread replies.

06:48: To view reply options, click the options icon.

06:52: To collapse the discussion. Thread replies, sidebar, click the close icon.

06:58: To view discussion threads. Inline on one page, click the view inline

07:02: button.

07:04: This guide covered how to view discussions as an observer.