A well-thought-out discussion can encourage and increase student interaction and learning. Any user with the Operations Manager role can create and manage discussions for your Organization or assign supplemental Roles for creating or moderating Discussions.
Create a Discussion
To create a Discussion:
On the Admin menu, select Create Discussion in the Discussions group.
On the Basic Information tab,
Type a Name that is brief but descriptive for the purpose of the discussion. This is visible to the end user,
Type a Description. This is visible to administrators only.
Set the Organization that will own the discussion. This will default to the organization in your profile.
On the Topics tab, select Add. Topics provide the structure for the discussion. Participant posts are made to/displayed by topic.
Type the title of the topic.
Select Add again and repeat to add all the topics for the discussion. Topics can be rearranged by drag-and-drop.
Select Save.
Attach a Course to a Discussion
Once a Discussion has been created, it must be attached to a Course before it can be visible to an end user.
To attach to a course:
Edit the course
Scroll to the bottom of the Basic Information tab.
Select Choose next to Discussion.
In the Choose Discussion, search for and select the discussion.
Save the course.
Once a Discussion is attached to a course, a link becomes visible to end Users with participant permissions on the Course profile page as well as all Class, Class Enrollment, and Course Assignment profile pages using the course.
If the course is available to multiple Organizations, users in those organizations will be able to access and post to the discussion board from the same pages as users in the owning organization.
A user role that is assigned to organization administrators. This is the highest level of permissions which customers can receive. It enables users to be able to create and manage users, content, training, pull reports, assign roles and organization management.
An organization is assigned to each entity in the TMS, such as, users, classes, subscriptions, and courses. The organization is a basis to determine access given based on roles within the organization and management over the organization.
Roles contain sets of permissions giving a user access within the platform.
Discussions are chat boards for users who have taken a course through a class or self paced to interact about the material.
Bundles together content to then be set up for training through classes, subscriptions, and course assignments. Courses can include labs, videos, SCORM, LTI, external links, assessments, and documents. Courses must be assigned to a Content Provider and a Publishing Group to be available to set up for training.
People who interact with the platform. Typically, we can break down users into three categories: Operations Managers, Instructors and Basic Users..
A class is a scheduled instructor-led event with a start and end time/date. Typically, these include lectures and hands on activities such as labs.
An enrollment is the student registration for a class. Enrollments have multiple statuses, but only the Enrollment Status of Enrolled gives a student access to class. Within the enrollment the student will access the labs and activities and if set up digital courseware and virtual classroom for their class.
A course assignment delivers self-paced access to a course. A course is assigned to a student giving immediate access to the student. It can be accessed at any time for the duration of the assignment. The assignment duration begins and is billed when it is created.
Organizations are the containers in which all objects in Skillable Studio reside. Each organization has two child orgs, Development and Production. Development is used for content creation and testing. Production is used only for content that is ready for consumption. Organizations also provide one of the security boundaries within the Skillable Studio platform.