About Ed Discussion

Ed Discussion is a threaded Q&A-style tool that is easy to use in your Canvas course site.

If Ed Discussion has already been installed on your site, visit our Canvas Tools page links to guides, and tips and tricks.

Ed Discussion Quick Start Guide

  

Presentation and tour of the tool

0:30 real times updates works for live upvoting and chatting

2:15 demo of the Q&A interface comments vs. questions and answers

4:15 creating new questions and posts

5:00 categories/subcategories for posts

5:30 private posts, anonymous posts

6:45 pinning posts

7:20 announcements vs posts

7:50 using content editor and tool bar markdown or regular WYSIWYG editor

10:15 math equations math equations: laTeX$, visual math editor great for stats, maths classes

12:30 embedding and running code snippets temporary sandbox functions great for programming courses

14:00 plotting and graphing

15:00 share interactive web snippets, HTML, CSS and JavaScript

15:30 display embedded images, maps from google, widgets

16:20 insert/drag & drop images, annotate images in replies

18:40 embed videos

19:40 using @mentions, copying others

20:20 staff only comments/back channel

21:00 searching and filtering threads

22:00 using filtering for unread, new replies, unanswered, unresolved, validating answers

24:10 students can create questions and posts instructors can also create announcements

24:45 notification settings

29:00 Instructor start up posting the Welcome Announcement setting up the course categories and subcategories; turning on/off anonymous

31:45 pedagogical issues using thread templates mediating posts declining student questions

hiding threads private feedback using emojis

36:10 using mega threads for posts dynamic FAQ for resolvable comments synchronous & asynchronous features upvoting live lecture Q&A office hours to do lists

40:30 analytics enabling and exporting engagement summary list of contributors

42:00 Ed Discussion Help page portal synchronizing course roster