The topic view contains all of the individual posts in a Discussion Forum topic and captures the conversation between students, TA, and faculty.
Topics contain individual posts. Topics also have additional features to speed navigation and encourage communication:
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Messages that you've already read are hidden by default. This means that you don't have to scroll through page after page of posts to get to the newest messages in a topic. If you want to see all the posts in the topic, just click on the link near the top of the page that says "View All [n] Posts."
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React to a post. Similar to the Facebook "Reaction" buttons, you can "React" to posts rather than creating a separate message to do so using emoji.
The number of people who share each reaction will be posted with the emoji. Hovering over an emoji will display a list of people who reacted similarly.
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Bookmark posts. You can quickly bookmark a post for later review by clicking the star icon next to a post.
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Faculty and TAs can mark a message as important. If faculty or TAs want to mark a particular message as important for everyone in the class (maybe it's the answer to someone's question, for example), they can do so. A message that's marked as important by the faculty or TAs can also have an explanation as to why that message was marked as important.
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Edit or delete your post. The default behavior is that you are able to edit or delete your post whenever you want. However, faculty and TAs can still set up a topic or category to only allow 15 minutes to edit or delete your post(s). This may be necessary for a Discussion Forum exercise, for example, so that you can't go back and edit your post once others have posted their work. If you edit your post after it is posted, a note will appear indicating the date and time that you edited the post.
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Nameplates. The nameplate contains the photo, name, and location of the person making the post.