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Use the Moodle Forum activity, but ask students to work and write in it simultaneously. This seems to work well for a more formal, organized discussion. Students can also divide different topics into their own threads. An activity like “think/pair/share” works well in this format (Bruce, 2020).
Hypothes.is
This is an online tool, which can be integrated with Moodle. It allows groups to collectively annotate any digital text. Each student can add highlights and comments to the text, but the neat thing is that each comment has a “reply” function wherein students can actually engage in some back-and-forth conversation about their annotations (and of course the instructor can too) (Bruce, 2020).
Synchronous Writing
This activity is borrowed from a writing group, where participants help each other get work done by meeting in a real-time text chat room, and then using the “pomodoro” technique (focused 20-minute bursts of concentrated work), all do your individual work together. Something about being present with others doing this really works. You can encourage each other, share drafting back and forth, etc. between writing sessions. This works really well when you want students to work on drafting essays, for example (Bruce, 2020).
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