Discussion module helps the students, teachers to interact with each other. For this a group has to be created and add respective members into it, so that they can share their views through posting comments in it. The members of the group gets privilege to see the posts and they are allowed to comment to the posts. The admin or privileged employees(belongs to the group) can delete the unwanted posts and the employees or students can delete only their respective posts.
See Also..
How to create discussion group?
How user can add post to a group?
How other users can put comments for the post in a group?
How can we edit,delete or add members to a group?
How can a user upload image or document while putting a post?