Hi @daniel_vokurka - It depends on how you would like students to respond....and to what.....but the basic answer is "not really." You can create a page that allows students to edit it (as covered in How do I edit a page in a course? ), but that's not ideal for many reasons, not the least of which is that major word edit. While you can view the page history, it can still lead to other issues, including the fact that--as I found out with an instructor at my own institution--it is not ideal if multiple students are trying to edit the page at the same time.
Announcements can also be set to allow a reply by changing the Settings, but frankly those look a lot like discussion replies.
I guess it really comes down to what you are hoping to do. Does that help at all?
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