Asking and Responding to Questions
Viewing, Posting and Responding to Questions During Class
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Participating in Q&A Discussions
Each course contains a Q&A tab where instructors and students can post questions, answers, and comments regarding the class and its content.
You can view Q&A entries for each class, view All Questions posted during the course, or view General Questions posted for the class. General questions are those that were posted without identifying a particular class.
To view questions and answers, navigate to the class list for the course.
1. Click the Q&A tab. By default, the questions shown are those associated with the class presentation you most recently viewed.
2. Use the drop-down list to view questions for a different class. You can also view General Questions for the class (those associated with the course but not a particular class), or All Questions. Click a question from the list on the left to view any associated responses.
3. Click Respond to Question to provide your own response.
4. Write your reponse and click Post to submit.
5. Click New Question to add a question to the class or course (selecting a particular class or General respectively).
6. Type in your new question, you may also attach a file, select a class (if you don't select any class your question will be posted as General Question) or Post anonymously. Click Post Question to submit.
Editing or deleting questions and responses
You can always go back and edit or delete any question or response you posted. You can only edit or delete your own posts.
Understand, however, that Instructors can delete any posts in their classes. Instructors can also see who posted each item, even if you post it anonymously.
To edit/delete a question on the Q&A tab, navigate to the class list for the course.
1. Click the Q&A tab. Find the question or response you want to edit/delete. Use the drop-down list to view questions for a specific class, or view All Questions.
2. Click the question from the list on the left to show it, and any responses in the right-pane of the Q&A tab.
3. Click the menu arrow (chevron) located to the right of the question or response, then click Edit or Delete as appropriate.
Note: Deleting a question also deletes all responses posted for the original question.
4. To edit/delete a question from within a classroom, click the Discussions icon from the classroom toolbar. The Discussions pane opens to the right of the classroom viewer. Find the question/response you want to edit.
5. Click the chevron (menu arrow) located to the right of the question or response.
6. Click Edit. The question or response appears in a text box that allows you to make changes to the text. You can also enable or disable the Post anonymously slider, or change whether to Reference class content location with the question.
7. When finished, click SAVE.
