Help
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Managing course-wide general discussions in Xen.ed
The discussion forums are a great way for students and instructors to engage in a conversation with one another. A lot of the time these discussions are about specific course material, but sometimes they're more general broad discussions. Each course automatically comes with a "General" discussion forum, but if you would like to add more course-wide discussions for things like "Help" or "Feedback," it can be a little tricky. Hopefully, this will clear things up:
From Xen.ed Studio, navigate to Advanced Settings via the Settings dropdown menu.
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Next, scroll down to the section titled Discussion Topic Mapping
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This is where you manage course-wide discussion topics. If you would like to add an additional course-wide topic, simply copy the three lines of code from "General" to "}" and paste them on the line below.
IMPORTANT: Be sure you add a comma after the first "}," Otherwise Xen.ed will not save your changes.
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Then, you'll want to change the name of the discussion. We'll use "Help" This could be a section where students can just ask general questions about anything they need help on.
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Next, be sure you append some unique identifier at the end of the "id", usually the name of the topic works great.
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Be sure to hit save, and you've done it! Your new discussion topic can be found in the discussion tab.
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