A discussion board (popularly known by
various other names like discussion group, discussion forum, message board, and online
forum) is a general term for any online "bulletin board". It is a place where you can
leave a message on the board and expect to see responses related to that; or
you can only read the board; or
you can just submit responses for others messages. on the Internet.,
CareerSarthi provides thousands of discussion boards in a very well organised way; these can also be viewed from a Web browser apart from mobile App.
Provide all students a place to be heard without being interrupted.
Interact asynchronously one-to-one or one-to-many.
It helps in clarifying doubts instantly
It opens various dimensions of viewing the same thing
It operates as a thread thus can be initiated or brought to end by its creator as per his requirement
You get to know who initiated it and to be or not to be its part is entirely the readers choice.
The initiator can allow only registered users to reply or he can open it for everyone.
References can be brought through links.
If the discussion is initiated for a class and by a class teacher then he may see which students are not participating. (Each will get count 1 and if the student has submitted 15 answers then the count will show count as 15 and similarly for other students as well. This way pushes students to answer more and more)
There are many more features...