 Threads is a very interesting plug-in that works with the Canvas LMS, and it allows instructors and students to see what's happening in discussion forums in different ways. Typically the forums are just long series of messages, post, reply, reply, reply, and it's hard to skim through all of those messages. The Threads tool allows me to drop in daily, in fact, and check quickly to see, oh yeah, the engagement that I hoped would happen around this discussion topic that I set up is actually happening. So that can help me focus my feedback to people as I try to engage in the forum to encourage better thinking. I might go and look for those unresponded to students to give them a little tap back. But I also use the data that comes out of Threads reflexively. So at the end of this new course that I've just launched, for example, I'm going to be looking at what kind of engagement network happened in each weekly topic area to discover which questions were most effective in engaging people in discussions, which ones really didn't spark the kind of activity I was looking for, you know, helping me to think about my own design and what can be improved for next time. While I'd never advocate for ignoring content and only looking at engagement, the engagement data actually tells us things that are valuable about how a group is co-hearing whether your class is divided into cliques, for example, or whether there's genuine exchange happening. One of the important things about Threads is enabling the student view also and asking the students to monitor it. You might engage your students in conversation about what would a rich discussion network look like.