​Overview

In Discussions, subscribing to a Forum, Topic, or Thread is a way to “Tag” an area of interest in that discussion. Subscribing to a Discussion by Forum, Topic, or Thread will send different levels of notifications to the subscriber.

  • Subscribing at the Forum level will allow the subscriber to receive a notification every time someone responds to any part of that forum (topic or thread). 
  • Subscribing to a Topic will will notify a subscriber every time someone responds to a thread in that topic.
  • Subscribing to a Thread will notify a subscriber someone has responded to that thread.

To Subscribe to a Discussion feed in D2L Brightspace, Select Discussions from the Communication tab from your course.

discussions menu

Select Subscriptions under the Discussions page.

Subscriptions menu

On the Subscriptions page, from the drop-down menu, select the type of Subscriptions you would like to receive notifications on.

type list

Select the type of notification you would like to receive.

type of notify