In this session, we scrutinize how the Digital PowerUps strategy offers a dynamic virtual community in Introduction to Psychology and Social Inequality courses. PowerUps are keywords displayed as hashtags that are associated with corresponding prompts in online discussion forums allowing for student choice and voice. Utilizing the powerups will not only help students structure their responses, but they will also help students to enrich their discussion boards and use it as a forum to interact and learn from one another. Using this strategy students identify or code their responses (three main posts and two peer-response posts) by using the appropriate hashtag that corresponds to the powerups. We will analyze students' feedback and 13 weeks of the online discussion contents in a qualitative approach. This session will show how digital PowerUps offers student-centered learning environment for students to have their choices and voices so that they feel comfortable to express themselves even in difficult subject matters.