Module Overview

In this module, you will gain discussion board strategies that you can copy and implement in your course(s) to serve a specific purpose (personal connections, analytic & critical practice, critiques & peer reviews).

Module Components

Depending on your needs, please view the following content. Reasons each can be helpful are listed next to the title/link of the content.

Making Discussions Effective: This shares the challenges with discussion boards, when to use a discussion board, and the importance of considering the purpose of a discussion board when you set it up.
Setting Up Effective Discussions: This shares how to include clear directions for discussion boards, including boards with multiple posts and student-facing instructions for attaching/embedding work.
Structures for Personal Connections, Analytic and Critical Practice: This breaks down how each discussion board strategy works and shows which distinct purpose (personal connections or analytic & critical practice) that type of strategy supports.
Additional Structures for Critiques: This breaks down how each discussion board strategy works and shows types of strategies that support the purpose of critiques & peer reviews.
Ready-To-Use Discussion Board Structures: The following list links to example discussion boards that you can copy and implement in your course(s) to serve a specific purpose (personal connections, analytic & critical practice, critiques & peer reviews).
- Personal Connections
  - 3CQ
- Analytic & Critical Practice
- Critiques & Peer Reviews
- Need Something Different? Database of Discussion Protocols.xlsx provides additional protocols that you may choose to research and implement.

To navigate this module, you can either 1.) click each of the links above in order or 2.) click "Next" in the lower right corner of each page.