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.
Note: You must specify your Notification Preferences to receive updates for subscribed discussions.
1. click the Account link from the Global Navigation.
2. click the notifications link
In Notification Preferences, you can change the method and frequency of subscribed discussion posts.
Click the Discussions link on the Course Navigation.
You can subscribe to an entire discussion from the Discussions page. Locate the discussion you want to subscribe to and click the Discussions icon.
Note: The Discussions icon will turn green when you hover over the icon and then stay green when you are subscribed.
Click the Subscribe button.
Note: The Subscribe button will become green when you are subscribed to the discussion topic.