How do you create a Journal Club Discussion Board assignment

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s5004675
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I am wanting create a Journal Club assignment discussion board within Canvas.

The concept is that each week a student within their discussion group will be required to write an essay on a specific topic ( a primer essentially). They then post it so that those in their group and view it and make comments. In addition, the student who wrote the Primer also facilitates/moderates the discussion for that week.  Each of the three components ( primer, facilitation and replies to posts) will be graded.

Has anyone created such an assignment or can offer ideas as to how to create it with in Canvas?

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Chris_Hofer
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Hi there, @s5004675 ...

This sounds possible...provided that the people in one group aren't needing to interact with people in another group.  Here is what you can do:

Once this is all set up, your students will all be in their own groups that you've set up within the Group Set, and they will have separate conversations only with their own groups.  They will not be able to see the discussions of other groups for this particular conversation/assignment.

You can create more than one Group Set on your "People" page...and the groups within those Group Sets can be completely different than what you created for your "Journal Club"....if that was of interest for you.

I hope this will be of some help to you.  Sing out if you have any other questions about this...thanks!

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