Entering Discussion Board

Upon clicking the topic title you wish to read or post in you will be taken to that particular

Discussion Board.

1. The Back to Forums and Topics List will take you back to the Discussions Homepage.

2. The Compose button will open a new window where you can make a new post to the

Discussion Forum. This will be covered in more detail in the next section called: Making a

Discussion Board Post

3. The Refresh button will refresh the Forum without having to leave it and reenter to update

new posts that may have come in while you were inside the Forum.

4. The Show Search button will bring up a text box that will allow you to search within the

current Forum you are inside. If you want to look for a particular post you know the name too or

just another classmate you can do that here.

5. The Settings button will open up another window where you can change the settings for the

way you view your Discussion Boards. You can change the default view from Grid view to

Reading view and also have the Search bar show up by default without having to click to show

it.

 6. The View drop down menu will allow you to change the way topics are displayed in the

Forum. You can sort to just show flagged messages, unread messages, or all messages.

7. This icon will show you messages that you have flagged. Below this you can click the

flag icon to flag a message for future reference. After doing this you can sort the messages from the View menu to just see your flagged messages. This icon will show you messages that have an attachment. If you go inside that topic you

will be able to download the attachment.

8. This area contains all of the posts inside the Discussion Forum. Note the difference between a

unread post and one that has been read before. This area also contains information on when the

message was posted along with the posters name. Just click the message title to read that post.