How do I subscribe to a discussion as a student?

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You can subscribe to entire discussion threads in your courses and be notified when new comments are posted to the topic. If you reply to a discussion, you will automatically be subscribed to discussions and will be notified of updates unless you manually unsubscribed to that discussion. Please note that you cannot subscribe to individual threads within a threaded discussion.

You will automatically be subscribed to discussions you create in your student groups. You will also be subscribed to any new discussions you create in your course, if your instructor has set course permissions that allow you to do so.

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You must specify your notification settings to receive updates for subscribed discussions.
If your discussion looks different than what is displayed in this lesson, your instructor may be using Discussions Redesign in your course. Learn how to subscribe to a discussion in Discussions Redesign.

In Notification Preferences, you can change the method and frequency of subscribed discussion posts.

Open Discussions

In Course Navigation, open the Discussions link.

Subscribe on Discussions Index Page

You can subscribe to an entire discussion from the Discussions page. Locate the discussion you want to subscribe to and click the Subscribe icon.

The Subscribe icon will turn green when you are subscribed.

Unsubscribe on Discussions Index Page

To unsubscribe from a discussion, locate the discussion you want to unsubscribe from and click the Subscribe icon.

The Subscribe icon will appear as an outline when you are unsubscribed.

Subscribe within Discussion

You can also subscribe within a discussion. Click the title of the discussion you want to subscribe to.

Subscribe to Discussion

Click the Subscribe button.

The Subscribe button will become green when you are subscribed to the discussion topic.

Unsubscribe from Discussion

To unsubscribe from a discussion, open the discussion and click the green Subscribed button.

The Subscribed button will become a gray Subscribe button when you are unsubscribed from a discussion topic.