Brightspace/Classes: Adding Assessment to a Discussion Topic

Introduction

This article instructs on how to add an Assessment to a discussion topic in Classes.

Instructions

1. Go into your Classes course, and in the blue navigation bar, click on Activities and select Discussions
2. On the Discussions page, click the chevron button next to the topic and select Edit Topic from the drop-down menu
   
   
3. Click the Ungraded button
   
4. Enter the total number of points in the Points field.
   
   Note: If you are not linking the discussion topic to an existing grade book item, skip to Step #9.
    
5. Click the In Grade Book button and select Edit of Link to Existing to link the topic to an existing grade item
   
   
6. Select Link to an existing grade item
   
7. Select the grade item from the drop down menu
   
   
8. Click Okay
9. Click Save and Close