Interact with Others in Minerva - Student Guides
You may be asked to interact with your tutors and peers using some of the built-in Minerva tools, guidance on these interactive tools are provided below.
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Discussions
Your tutor may create Discussion topics in your module to encourage you to think critically about your work and interact with each others’ ideas asynchronously. Discussions can be graded or ungraded. Learn how to find, reply, and create Discussion topics.
Edit/delete Discussions
Depending on the type of Discussion and who created it, you have different options for editing and deleting Discussion content.
Conversations
Conversations in Minerva allow you to discuss module content with your peers and your tutor(s). Tutors can enable Conversations for certain types of content. This gives you the opportunity to ask (and answer) questions, share comments and develop discussions around these content items. Learn more about Conversations.
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Journals
Though Journals are not used to interact with your peers, they can be used to share thoughts with your tutor. Your tutor may also ask you to contribute to a Journal that will be graded. Learn more about Journals.
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