Discussions and Announcements
Communication
Discussions and Announcements have almost exactly the same function and both are used for whole-class communication. Discussions can be graded or ungraded. Announcements sent a notification to students when posted. Typically, discussions are used for conversation around learning topics among the whole class, and announcements are used by instructors to deliver timely updates and information to students. They both have the same editing functions that pages do.
Watch Out For
With each of these functions, there are a couple of aspects that aren’t readily apparent you’ll want to be aware of before you use them.