Accessing the Discussion Forum

Introduction

This is an asynchronous discussion forum for the online course. You can join an existing discussion, read all posts within a discussion, add your own posts, or create a new topic for discussion.

Procedure

1.      Launch an E-Classroom course.

2.      Select Discussion Forum from the Communications menu.

The following screen is displayed:

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Discussion Forum List

This screen displays the following columns of information:

·        #: Displays the order in which the topics were created, with the newest topic at the top of the list.

·        Topic (link): Displays the title and description of the topic.

·        Postings: Indicates the number of posts that have been made to that topic.

·        Author: Indicates the creator of the topic.

·        Date Created: Indicates when the date when the topic was added.

3.      You can perform the following operations from this screen:

·        Click Search to search for a topic.

·        Click New Topic to create a new topic in the discussion forum.

·        Click a Topic link to view the details of a selected topic.

·        Click Delete to remove a topic from the discussion forum.