If you do not assign scores to students for discussions, you may consider enabling grading of forums or topics to be able to give students private feedback about their forum / topic contributions.

By enabling grading, you will have access to statistics on the number of posts per student, by topic or forum (depending on your choice). And, you will be able to view a student's collective posts in one page.

• To enable grading, without assigning scores to students, set the point value of the forum or topic to zero (0).
• A zero point value means that the topic or forum will not be counted toward the grade, and will not be sent to the gradebook. Students will see your comments, but they will not see a zero (or other) point value.