Blackboard learning system/discussion
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Discussion forums in eLearning
With the Discussions tool you can discuss course topics with Section Instructors, Teaching Assistants, and other Students in the course.
There are three types of discussion topics:
Threaded: A traditional online discussions where you can post and reply to messages. Replies that are associated with the same post are grouped together, creating message threads that can be expanded and collapsed.
Class blog: A more collaborative space, where you post a chronological series of entries on a particular topic. You can then add comments to any blog entry.
Journal: A place for your own writing, the journals can be kept private between you and your Section Instructor or shared with the class.
Depending on settings, within the topics created for your course, you can read, post, and reply to discussion messages, and submit peer review. You may be graded based on your participation in a topic.
With the Discussions tool, you can:
- read messages posted by your Section Instructors, Teaching Assistants and other Students.
- post messages to threaded or class blog topics, or add entries to your journal.
- receive replies or peer review from other Students.
Posting Messages
Posting Messages From the discussion topic's messages screen, click Create Message or Create New Entry.
Enter the subject of your message.
Enter the message:
To enter a message in Plain Text format, enter it in the Message text box. The message will appear exactly as you have typed it.
To enter a message in HTML format, you can use the HTML Creator or hand code the HTML:
To use the HTML Creator, click Enable HTML Creator.
If you want to attach files to your message:
Click Add Attachments. The Content Browser pop-up window appears.
Browse to locate and select the file.
To post the message, click Post.
Replying to messages
Rather than posting a new message, you can reply to threaded messages or comment on blog messages.
From the message, click Reply or Comment.
Enter your reply:
To reply in Plain Text format, enter the message in the text box. The message will appear exactly as you have typed it.
To reply in HTML format, you can use the HTML Creator or you can hand code the HTML:
To use the HTML Creator, click Enable HTML Creator.
If you want to attach files to the message:
Click Add Attachments. The Content Browser pop-up window appears.
Browse to locate and select the files.
To post the message, click Post.
see Also http://wiki.wsu.edu/ctowiki/Blackboard_learning_system/email
Locating, Reading, and Navigating Messages
You can locate messages posted to one topic or to all topics. You can also locate new messages only.
From the Discussions screen, do one of the following:
To locate messages:
- in one topic, click the topic title.
- that you posted, click All My Posts. Note that this will include the messages that you posted, as well as your threaded replies and your blog comments.
- in all topics, click All Topics.
Note: It may take some time to load all of your messages or all messages posted. After you click these links, they are disabled so that the request is sent only once.
To locate new messages:
- in all topics, next to All Topics, click New.
- in one topic, next to the topic title, click New.
- posted in reply to your messages, next to All My Posts, click New Replies. Both comments and replies are included.Tip: If you want to see your original message, next to In Reply to, click the Expand icon. (the plus sign +)
To read and navigate messages, do the following:
- For threaded messages:
- To read the message, click the message subject.
- To navigate messages, click Next Message or Previous Message.
- To navigate pages, click the Next Page or Previous Page icon.
- To view peer review, click View All Peer Reviews. For more information, see Using Peer Review.
- For blog messages, the messages are displayed.
- To read comments on a message, click Comments.
- To navigate pages, click the Next Page or Previous Page icon.
- To view peer review, click View All Peer Reviews. For more information, see Using Peer Review.
- For journal entries, the entries are displayed.
- To read comments on an entry, click Comments.
- To navigate pages, click the Next Page or Previous Page icon.
- If the journal is public it displays links to the journals of all Students in the course who have added entries to their journals. To read another Student's journal, under Name, click the name of the Student. To return to your journal, click My Journal at the top of the list.
- To view peer review, click View All Peer Reviews. For more information, see Using Peer Review.
- If the message includes an attached file that you want to view or download, next to Attachments, click its file name.
Printing and Saving Messages
You can compile messages and then print or save them. You can also use the compiled list to read and respond to the messages. After you have compiled messages, they are marked as read.
- Locate the messages.
- Select the messages that you want to print or save:
- For threaded messages:
- To select specific messages, select the check box next to each message.
- To select all messages on the current page, in the table heading row, select the check box.
- For blog messages and journal entries:
- To select specific messages or entries, select the check box next to the subject.
- To select all messages on the current page, click Select All.
- Click Create Printable View.
- If you want to print the compiled messages, click Print.
- If you want to download the compiled messages, click Save as File.
- When you are finished viewing the compiled messages, click Close this window.