When creating a discussion in the gradebook, it would be great to be able to add it to a lesson right then instead of having to do that later from the lesson design. It would also be nice to be able to set up the grading requirements on the first pass.
When creating a discussion in a lesson, it would be great to have the option to make it graded and to navigate the assignment options right there instead of having to create a new assignment on a separate page and select the discussion.
Being able to complete all these functions in one place would save a lot of time clicking back and forth between different course tabs.